4 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…