35.776, FYI: Invitation to Shared Task 4 #SMM4H: Extraction of the clinical and social impacts of nonmedical substance use from Reddit

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Subject: 35.776, FYI: Invitation to Shared Task 4 #SMM4H: Extraction of the clinical and social impacts of nonmedical substance use from Reddit

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Date: 05-Mar-2024
From: Sudeshna Das [sudeshna.das at emory.edu]
Subject: Invitation to Shared Task 4 #SMM4H: Extraction of the clinical and social impacts of nonmedical substance use from Reddit


Substance use, both prescription and illicit, has become a significant
public health concern, leading to addiction, overdose, and associated
health issues. Understanding the clinical impacts and social impacts
of nonmedical substance use is essential for improving the treatment
of substance use disorder.

In this Named Entity Recognition (NER) task, we focus on two entity
types: clinical impacts and social impacts. Instances in the clinical
impacts category describe the clinical effects, consequences, or
impacts of substance use on individuals' health. Instances the social
impacts describe the societal, interpersonal, or community-level
effects, consequences, or impacts of nonmedical substance use. Systems
designed for this task need to detect these impacts and automatically
distinguish between clinical impacts and social impacts in text data
derived from Reddit. We anticipate that the strategies will involve
leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs).

Participating teams have the opportunity to submit a short system
description paper for the SMM4H proceedings. The 9th Social Media
Mining for Health Research and Applications Workshop (SMM4H) is
co-located with ACL 2024, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Website: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2024/

You can find more details on SMM4H Shared Task 4 on Codalab:
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16648
Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet9w5zqla
ZMZVuPqvW2GnBYTs5_NUjU4r2tUfUfkMMyYuxmw/viewform

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Important Dates
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Training data available: Jan 10, 2024
CodaLab Available: Jan 17, 2024
Test data available: Apr 17, 2024
Evaluation end: Apr 24, 2024
System description paper due: May 17, 2024
Paper acceptance notification: June 17, 2024
Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2024
Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (co-located with ACL 2024): August 15,
2024 (hybrid event, online presentation will be available)
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC (3:59 PM PST). No extension will be
provided.

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Organizers of Shared Task 4
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Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA
Yao Ge, Emory University, USA
Swati Rajwal, Emory University, USA
Sudeshna Das, Emory University, USA

Questions on Shared Task 4 may be addressed to Yao Ge, Emory
University, USA (yao.ge at emory.edu)

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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