Generalizable Natural Language Processing Framework for Migraine Reporting from Social Media
Abstract
Migraine is a high-prevalence and disabling neurological disorder. However, information migraine management in real-world settings could be limited to traditional health information sources. In this paper, we (i) verify that there is substantial migraine-related chatter available on social media (Twitter and Reddit), self-reported by migraine sufferers; (ii) develop a platform-independent text classification system for automatically detecting self-reported migraine-related posts, and (iii) conduct analyses of the self-reported posts to assess the utility of social media for studying this problem. We manually annotated 5750 Twitter posts and 302 Reddit posts. Our system achieved an F1 score of 0.90 on Twitter and 0.93 on Reddit. Analysis of information posted by our 'migraine cohort' revealed the presence of a plethora of relevant information about migraine therapies and patient sentiments associated with them. Our study forms the foundation for conducting an in-depth analysis of migraine-related information using social media data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.12454,
title = {Generalizable Natural Language Processing Framework for Migraine Reporting from Social Media},
author = {Yuting Guo and Swati Rajwal and Sahithi Lakamana and Chia-Chun Chiang and Paul C. Menell and Adnan H. Shahid and Yi-Chieh Chen and Nikita Chhabra and Wan-Ju Chao and Chieh-Ju Chao and Todd J. Schwedt and Imon Banerjee and Abeed Sarker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.12454},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted by AMIA 2023 Informatics Summit