Title
Adversarial Transfer Network With Bilinear Attention For The Detection Of Adverse Drug Reactions From Social Media
Abstract
The drug safety issues related to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are gradually becoming more important to the public. With social media booming, increasingly more patients would like to share their reactions to get support from others. These published posts comprise a valuable resource for ADR identification because of their timeliness. However, available social media datasets are rare. Moreover, the informality of the social media text is also a challenge for ADR identification. PubMed and social media differ greatly in expression and syntax. Introducing the PubMed datasets, which are usually normative and numerous, may be helpful to ADR identification in social media. To this end, we propose an adversarial transfer framework for ADR identification that transfers the auxiliary features from PubMed to social media datasets to improve the generalization of the model and mitigate the noise caused by colloquial expression in social media. Additionally, we add dynamic weight to the loss function to offset the training slants caused by imbalanced training data. We experimentally evaluate the method we proposed on two social media datasets and two PubMed datasets. The results show that our proposed method can improve the performance of ADR identification from social media. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107358
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Adverse drug reactions, Adversarial transfer network, Social media, Named entity recognition
Journal
106
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1568-4946
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tongxuan Zhang132.44
Hongfei Lin2768122.52
Yuqi Ren332.77
Zhihao Yang400.68
Jian Wang57316.74
Shaowu Zhang6215.49
Bo Xu79528.26
Xiaodong Duan800.34