Detecting personal intake of medicine from Twitter

• Main Authors: MAHATA, Debanjan, FRIEDRICHS, Jasper, SHAH, Rajiv Ratn, JIANG, Jing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: adverse drug reactions; affective computing; health informatics; personal intake of medicine; pharmacovigilance; social media mining; Databases and Information Systems; Health Information Technology; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7765; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8768/viewcontent/IntakeMedicine_Twitter_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Mining social media messages such as tweets, blogs, and Facebook posts for health and drug related information has received significant interest in pharmacovigilance research. Social media sites (e.g., Twitter), have been used for monitoring drug abuse, adverse reactions to drug usage, and analyzing...