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This study describes the approach of Team ADE Oracle for Task 1 of the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) 2024 shared task. Task 1 challenges partic- ipants to detect adverse drug events (ADEs) within English tweets and normalize these men- tions against the Medical Dictionary for Regu- latory Activities standards. Our approach uti- lized a two-stage NLP pipeline consisting of a named entity recognition model, retrained to recognize ADEs, followed by vector similar- ity assessment with a RoBERTa-based model. Despite achieving a relatively high recall of 37.4% in the extraction of ADEs, indicative of effective identification of potential ADEs, our model encountered challenges with preci- sion. We found marked discrepancies between recall and precision between the test set and our validation set, which underscores the need for further efforts to prevent overfitting and en- hance the model’s generalization capabilities for practical applications.

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ADE Oracle at #SMM4H 2024: A Two-Stage NLP System for Extracting and Normalizing Adverse Drug Events from Tweets

social media text mining & analytics in public health

spacy

meddra normalization

adverse drug event (ade) detection

computational linguistics (cl)

named entity recognition (ner)

natural language processing (nlp)

machine learning (ml)

pharmacovigilance

roberta

workshop paper

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