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most citedThe COVID-19 Infodemic: Can the Crowd Judge Recent Misinformation Objectively?

37 citations · 48 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2022

Generalizing over Long Tail Concepts for Medical Term Normalization

Beatrice Portelli, Simone Scaboro, Enrico Santus +3

Medical term normalization consists in mapping a piece of text to a large number of output classes. Given the small size of the annotated datasets and the extremely long tail distr…

cs.CL2022

AILAB-Udine@SMM4H 22: Limits of Transformers and BERT Ensembles

Beatrice Portelli, Simone Scaboro, Emmanuele Chersoni +2

This paper describes the models developed by the AILAB-Udine team for the SMM4H 22 Shared Task. We explored the limits of Transformer based models on text classification, entity ex…

cs.CL2022

Increasing Adverse Drug Events extraction robustness on social media: case study on negation and speculation

Simone Scaboro, Beatrice Portelli, Emmanuele Chersoni +2

In the last decade, an increasing number of users have started reporting Adverse Drug Events (ADE) on social media platforms, blogs, and health forums. Given the large volume of re…

cs.CL2021

NADE: A Benchmark for Robust Adverse Drug Events Extraction in Face of Negations

Simone Scaboro, Beatrice Portelli, Emmanuele Chersoni +2

Adverse Drug Event (ADE) extraction models can rapidly examine large collections of social media texts, detecting mentions of drug-related adverse reactions and trigger medical inv…

cs.IR202110 cited

Can the Crowd Judge Truthfulness? A Longitudinal Study on Recent Misinformation about COVID-19

Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli +6

Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to assess the truthfulness of a statement, instead of relying on a few experts, a crowd…

cs.CL20211 cited

Improving Adverse Drug Event Extraction with SpanBERT on Different Text Typologies

Beatrice Portelli, Daniele Passabì, Edoardo Lenzi +3

In recent years, Internet users are reporting Adverse Drug Events (ADE) on social media, blogs and health forums. Because of the large volume of reports, pharmacovigilance is seeki…