Paper ID: 2406.19951

Mining Reasons For And Against Vaccination From Unstructured Data Using Nichesourcing and AI Data Augmentation

Damián Ariel Furman, Juan Junqueras, Z. Burçe Gümüslü, Edgar Altszyler, Joaquin Navajas, Ophelia Deroy, Justin Sulik

We present Reasons For and Against Vaccination (RFAV), a dataset for predicting reasons for and against vaccination, and scientific authorities used to justify them, annotated through nichesourcing and augmented using GPT4 and GPT3.5-Turbo. We show how it is possible to mine these reasons in non-structured text, under different task definitions, despite the high level of subjectivity involved and explore the impact of artificially augmented data using in-context learning with GPT4 and GPT3.5-Turbo. We publish the dataset and the trained models along with the annotation manual used to train annotators and define the task.

Submitted: Jun 28, 2024