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BCH-NLP at BioCreative VII Track 3: medications detection in tweets using transformer networks and multi-task learning

26 Nov 2021arXiv:2111.13726archive 2025-07-28

Dongfang Xu, Shan Chen, Timothy Miller

In this paper, we present our work participating in the BioCreative VII Track 3 - automatic extraction of medication names in tweets, where we implemented a multi-task learning model that is jointly trained on text classification and sequence labelling. Our best system run achieved a strict F1 of 80.4, ranking first and more than 10 points higher than the average score of all participants. Our analyses show that the ensemble technique, multi-task learning, and data augmentation are all beneficial for medication detection in tweets.

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