Stigma Annotation Scheme and Stigmatized Language Detection in Health-Care Discussions on Social Media (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a large amount of research has been done on the interpretation and influence of stigma on human behaviour and health. |
| Approach: | They develop an annotation scheme and improve the annotation process for stigma identification . they aim to distinguish stigmatised language from non-stigmatised using machine learning and NLP . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the annotation process for stigma identification . the results show that the method performs better than other models . |
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