no code implementations • EMNLP (WNUT) 2020 • Arjun Magge, Varad Pimpalkhute, Divya Rallapalli, David Siguenza, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Increasing usage of social media presents new non-traditional avenues for monitoring disease outbreaks, virus transmissions and disease progressions through user posts describing test results or disease symptoms.
no code implementations • SMM4H (COLING) 2020 • Ari Klein, Ilseyar Alimova, Ivan Flores, Arjun Magge, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Anne-Lyse Minard, Karen O’Connor, Abeed Sarker, Elena Tutubalina, Davy Weissenbacher, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
The vast amount of data on social media presents significant opportunities and challenges for utilizing it as a resource for health informatics.
no code implementations • NAACL (SMM4H) 2021 • Arjun Magge, Ari Klein, Antonio Miranda-Escalada, Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi, Ilseyar Alimova, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Eulalia Farre, Salvador Lima López, Ivan Flores, Karen O’Connor, Davy Weissenbacher, Elena Tutubalina, Abeed Sarker, Juan Banda, Martin Krallinger, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
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 health.
no code implementations • SMM4H (COLING) 2022 • Davy Weissenbacher, Juan Banda, Vera Davydova, Darryl Estrada Zavala, Luis Gasco Sánchez, Yao Ge, Yuting Guo, Ari Klein, Martin Krallinger, Mathias Leddin, Arjun Magge, Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Abeed Sarker, Lucia Schmidt, Elena Tutubalina, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
For the past seven years, the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) shared tasks have promoted the community-driven development and evaluation of advanced natural language processing systems to detect, extract, and normalize health-related information in public, user-generated content.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2021 • Ari Z. Klein, Arjun Magge, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a method that automatically identifies the exact age of users based on self-reports in their tweets.
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 • 8 Feb 2017 • Pramod Bharadwaj Chandrashekar, Arjun Magge, Abeed Sarker, Graciela Gonzalez
We hypothesize that we can use social media to identify cohorts of pregnant women and follow them over time to analyze crucial health-related information.