Automatic extraction of medication mentions from tweets—overview of the biocreative VII shared task 3 competition

D Weissenbacher, K O'Connor, S Rawal, Y Zhang… - Database, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This study presents the outcomes of the shared task competition BioCreative VII (Task 3)
focusing on the extraction of medication names from a Twitter user's publicly available …

BCH-NLP at BioCreative VII Track 3: medications detection in tweets using transformer networks and multi-task learning

D Xu, S Chen, T Miller - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13726, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present our work participating in the BioCreative VII Track 3-automatic
extraction of medication names in tweets, where we implemented a multi-task learning …

[PDF][PDF] Boosting transformers using background knowledge, or how to detect drug mentions in social media using limited data

R Roller, A Ayach, L Raithel - Proceedings …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
To process natural language and to extract information from text, transformers are currently
the model of choice for many different tasks. Conversely, if the number of training examples …

[PDF][PDF] BioCreative VII–Task 3: automatic extraction of medication names in tweets

D Weissenbacher, K O'Connor… - BioCreative …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
We present the BioCreative VII Task 3 which focuses on drug names extraction from tweets.
Recognized to provide unique insights into population health, detecting health related …

Task reformulation and data-centric approach for Twitter medication name extraction

Y Zhang, JK Lee, JC Han, RTH Tsai - Database, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Automatically extracting medication names from tweets is challenging in the real world.
There are many tweets; however, only a small proportion mentions medications. Thus …

[PDF][PDF] NCU-IISR/AS-GIS: Detecting medication names in imbalanced twitter data with pretrained extractive QA model and data-centric approach

Y Zhang, JK Lee, JC Han… - Proceedings …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
BioCreative VII Track 3-Automatic extraction of medication names in tweets. Automatically
extracting medication names from imbalanced data is challenging for deep learning models …

[PDF][PDF] Extraction of medication names from tweets–CLaC at BioCreative VII Track 3

P Bagherzadeh, S Bergler - Proceedings …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
We present a modular model that leverages knowledge sources including specialized
gazetteer lists, morphological information, and contextualized language models for the task …

[PDF][PDF] Medication mention extraction in tweets using DistilBERT with bootstrapping

P Han, D Yu, VGV Vydiswaran - Proceedings …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
A large volume of layperson-authored messages get posted and consumed on Twitter,
which makes it an important source for public health-related studies. The Task 3 of the …

[PDF][PDF] A lexicon-based approach to predicting pregnancy-related medication mentions by Twitter users

SR Piccolo - Proceedings of the BioCreative VII …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
We sought to develop an automated approach for classifying social media posts (" tweets")
by 212 pregnant users. Part of the BioCreative VII-Track 3 challenge, we sought to …

[PDF][PDF] Drug mention recognition in Twitter posts using a deep learning approach

JF Silva, T Almeida, R Antunes… - Proceedings …, 2021 - biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu
In an era where medicine and technology are closely intertwined, sources of patient-
generated data such as social media content are being explored to extract important …