Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
Abstract:This work explores the detection of individuals' risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) directly from their social media (Twitter) activity. Our approach extends a deep learning architecture with several contributions: following previous observations that language use differs by gender, it captures and uses gender information through domain adaptation; it captures recency of posts under the hypothesis that more recent posts are more representative of an individual's current risk status; and, lastly, it demons… Show more
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