A Pharmacovigilance Application of Social Media Mining: An Ensemble Approach for Automated Classification and Extraction of Drug Mentions in Tweets

no code implementations • NeurIPS Workshop LatinX_in_AI 2021 • Luis Alberto Robles Hernandez, Rajath Chikkatur Srinivasa, Juan M Banda

In this work, we propose a two step approach, first, we focused on classifying tweets with drug mentions via an ensemble model (containing transformer models), second, we extract drug mentions (along with their span positions) using a text-tagging/dictionary based approach, and a Named Entity Recognition (NER) approach.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1