
Mining Drug Side Effects from Social Media
Using LLMs to Build Knowledge Graphs for Pharmacovigilance
This research presents a novel framework that leverages large language models to extract medication side effects from social media conversations and organize them into structured knowledge graphs.
- Creates a systematic approach to mine valuable patient experiences from unstructured social media data
- Applied to semaglutide (weight loss medication) using Reddit data
- Transforms noisy user reports into organized, actionable medical insights
- Compares findings with official FDA adverse event reporting system
This work demonstrates how AI can enhance pharmacovigilance by capturing real-world patient experiences that might not appear in clinical trials, helping healthcare professionals better understand medication effects in diverse populations.