Mining Drug Side Effects from Social Media

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.

Crowdsourcing-Based Knowledge Graph Construction for Drug Side Effects Using Large Language Models with an Application on Semaglutide

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