Detecting Adverse Drug Reactions from Biomedical Texts with Neural Networks

Ilseyar Alimova, Elena Tutubalina


Abstract
Detection of adverse drug reactions in postapproval periods is a crucial challenge for pharmacology. Social media and electronic clinical reports are becoming increasingly popular as a source for obtaining health related information. In this work, we focus on extraction information of adverse drug reactions from various sources of biomedical textbased information, including biomedical literature and social media. We formulate the problem as a binary classification task and compare the performance of four state-of-the-art attention-based neural networks in terms of the F-measure. We show the effectiveness of these methods on four different benchmarks.
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P19-2058
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
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July
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Fernando Alva-Manchego, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Khashabi
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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415–421
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-2058
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-2058
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Ilseyar Alimova and Elena Tutubalina. 2019. Detecting Adverse Drug Reactions from Biomedical Texts with Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 415–421, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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