Pharmacovigilance from social media: mining adverse drug reaction mentions using sequence labeling with word embedding cluster features.

Objective: Social media is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for sharing personal health-related information. This information can be utilized for public health monitoring tasks, particularly for pharmacovigilance, via the use of natural language processing (NLP) techniques. However, the l...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 671 - 682
Main Authors: Nikfarjam, Azadeh, Sarker, Abeed, O'Connor, Karen, Ginn, Rachel, Gonzalez, Graciela
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA May2015
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