no code implementations • WS 2019 • Davy Weissenbacher, Abeed Sarker, Arjun Magge, Ashlynn Daughton, Karen O{'}Connor, Michael J. Paul, Gonzalez-Hern, Graciela ez
We present the Social Media Mining for Health Shared Tasks collocated with the ACL at Florence in 2019, which address these challenges for health monitoring and surveillance, utilizing state of the art techniques for processing noisy, real-world, and substantially creative language expressions from social media users.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2019 • Davy Weissenbacher, Arjun Magge, Karen O{'}Connor, Matthew Scotch, Gonzalez-Hern, Graciela ez
We also analyze the methods, the results and the errors made by the competing systems with a focus on toponym disambiguation.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Takeshi Onishi, Davy Weissenbacher, Ari Klein, Karen O{'}Connor, Gonzalez-Hern, Graciela ez
Through a semi-automatic analysis of tweets, we show that Twitter users not only express Medication Non-Adherence (MNA) in social media but also their reasons for not complying; further research is necessary to fully extract automatically and analyze this information, in order to facilitate the use of this data in epidemiological studies.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ari Klein, Abeed Sarker, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Karen O{'}Connor, Graciela Gonzalez
Social media sites (e. g., Twitter) have been used for surveillance of drug safety at the population level, but studies that focus on the effects of medications on specific sets of individuals have had to rely on other sources of data.