Background Use of the social media website Twitter is highly prevalent and has led to a
plethora of Web-based social and health-related data available for use by researchers. As such, …

Objective We executed the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2017 shared tasks to
enable the community-driven development and large-scale evaluation of automatic text …

The current stage of development of Russian society is characterized by rather intense and
serious socio-economic, industrial, legal and spiritual-moral changes. These changes, due to …

Background: Drug prescriptions are often recorded in free-text clinical narratives; making this
information available in a structured form is important to support many health-related tasks. …

In recent years, social media websites have been suggested as a novel, vast source of data
which may be useful for deriving drug safety information. Despite this, there are few …

This paper describes a medical concept normalisation system developed for the 2nd Social
Media Mining for Health Applications Shared Task 3. The proposed system contains three …

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are unwanted or harmful effects experienced after the
administration of a certain drug or a combination of drugs, presenting a challenge for drug …

Increasing numbers of patients are sharing their health-related experiences online in forums,
or on social media websites, such as Twitter and Facebook. This largely untapped source …

The medical concept normalisation task aims to map textual descriptions to standard
terminologies such as SNOMED-CT or MedDRA. Existing publicly available datasets annotated …

ii46 POSTERS Page 1 physiotherapist and nurse. This innovation has expanded a traditionally
medical pathway to an MDT model utilising value-adding nonmedical expertise in …