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BERT based Adverse Drug Effect Tweet Classification
Journal
Social Media Mining for Health, SMM4H 2021 - Proceedings of the 6th Workshop and Shared Tasks
Date Issued
2021-01-01
Author(s)
Kayastha, Tanay
Gupta, Pranjal
Bhattacharyya, Pushpak
Abstract
This paper describes models developed for the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2021 shared tasks (Magge et al., 2021). Our team participated in the first subtask that classifies tweets with Adverse Drug Effect (ADE) mentions. Our best performing model utilizes BERTweet followed by a single layer of BiLSTM. The system achieves an F-score of 0.45 on the test set without using any supplementary resources such as Part-of-Speech tags, dependency tags, or knowledge from medical dictionaries.