Streamlining social media information retrieval for public health research with deep learning.
Yining HuaJiageng WuShixu LinMinghui LiYujie ZhangDinah FoerSiwen WangPeilin ZhouJie YangLi ZhouPublished in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (2024)
This study advances public health research by implementing a novel, systematic pipeline for curating symptom lexicons from social media data. The final lexicon's high accuracy, validated by medical professionals, underscores the potential of this methodology to reliably interpret, and categorize vast amounts of unstructured social media data into actionable medical insights across diverse linguistic and regional landscapes.