Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Communities

Mina Valizadeh, Pardis Ranjbar-Noiey, Cornelia Caragea, Natalie Parde


Abstract
Self-disclosure in online health conversations may offer a host of benefits, including earlier detection and treatment of medical issues that may have otherwise gone unaddressed. However, research analyzing medical self-disclosure in online communities is limited. We address this shortcoming by introducing a new dataset of health-related posts collected from online social platforms, categorized into three groups (No Self-Disclosure, Possible Self-Disclosure, and Clear Self-Disclosure) with high inter-annotator agreement (_k_=0.88). We make this data available to the research community. We also release a predictive model trained on this dataset that achieves an accuracy of 81.02%, establishing a strong performance benchmark for this task.
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2021.naacl-main.347
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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June
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2021
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Online
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Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4398–4408
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.347
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10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.347
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Mina Valizadeh, Pardis Ranjbar-Noiey, Cornelia Caragea, and Natalie Parde. 2021. Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Communities. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 4398–4408, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Communities (Valizadeh et al., NAACL 2021)
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