With many adults using social media to discuss health information, researchers have begun diving into this resource to monitor or detect health conditions on a population level. Twitter …
The goals of the SMM4H shared tasks are to release annotated social media based health related datasets to the research community, and to compare the performances of natural …
The volume of data encapsulated within social media continues to grow, and, consequently, there is a growing interest in developing effective systems that can convert this data into …
Social media has evolved into a crucial resource for obtaining large volumes of real-time information. The promise of social media has been realized by the public health domain …
Recent research has shown that Twitter data analytics can have broad implications on public health research. However, its value for pharmacovigilance has been scantly studied …
Our team, NRC-Canada, participated in two shared tasks at the AMIA-2017 Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications (SMM4H): Task 1-classification of tweets …
The global growth of social media usage over the past decade has opened research avenues for mining health related information that can ultimately be used to improve public …
Background Prescription medication (PM) misuse/abuse has emerged as a national crisis in the United States, and social media has been suggested as a potential resource for …
The number of users of social media continues to grow, with nearly half of adults worldwide and two-thirds of all American adults using social networking. Advances in automated data …