Medical Concept Mention Identification in Social Media Posts using a Small Number of Sample References
Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, Sneha Rautmare, Meegan Gower, Maja Popović, Nishtha Jain, now at Spoke.ai, Berlin, Germany, Patricia Buffini, John Kelleher · 2023
Identification of mentions of medical concepts in social media text can provide useful information for caseload prediction of diseases like Covid-19 and Measles.We propose a simple model for the automatic identification of the medical concept mentions in the social media text.We validate the effectiveness of the proposed model on Twitter, Reddit, and News/Media datasets.