@inproceedings{3c24d258cdec424eafa0ca3c944d92cd,
title = "A large-scale CNN ensemble for medication safety analysis",
abstract = "Revealing Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) is an essential part of post-marketing drug surveillance, and data from health-related forums and medical communities can be of a great significance for estimating such effects. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end CNN-based method for predicting drug safety on user comments from healthcare discussion forums. We present an architecture that is based on a vast ensemble of CNNs with varied structural parameters, where the prediction is determined by the majority vote. To evaluate the performance of the proposed solution, we present a large-scale dataset collected from a medical website that consists of over 50 thousand reviews for more than 4000 drugs. The results demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms conventional approaches and predicts medicine safety with an accuracy of 87.17\% for binary and 62.88\% for multi-classification tasks.",
keywords = "Adverse Drug Reactions, Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep learning, Ensembles, Sentiment analysis",
author = "Liliya Akhtyamova and Andrey Ignatov and John Cardiff",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017 ; Conference date: 21-06-2017 Through 23-06-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-59569-6\_29",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319595689",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "247--253",
editor = "Flavius Frasincar and Ashwin Ittoo and Elisabeth Metais and Nguyen, \{Le Minh\}",
booktitle = "Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}