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Detecting Medication Mentions in Social Media Data Using Large Language Models

2025-05-18 health informatics Title + abstract only
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The automatic extraction of medication mentions from social media data is critical for pharmacovigilance and public health monitoring. In this study, we present an end-to-end generative approach based on instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) for medication mention extraction from Twitter. Reformulating the task as a text-to-text generation problem, our models achieve state-of-the-art results on both fine-grained span extraction and coarse-grained tweet-level classification, surpassing t...

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