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. 2023 Feb 3;3:e40156. doi: 10.2196/40156

Table 2.

Evaluation (F1 scores) of deep learning models for the classification of Health Belief Model constructs and speech acts.

Variable BERTweet BERTweet-Covid19 Ensemble (BERTweet+BERTweet-Covid19)
Health Belief Model constructs



Per class performance




Perceived barriers 0.64 0.64 0.77


Perceived severity 0.76 0.80 0.83

Overall model performance




Macro average 0.71 0.74 0.81
Speech acts



Per class performance




Assertion 0.80 0.78 0.82


Declaratives 0.92 0.83 0.89


Directive 0.80 0.73 0.67


Question 0.83 0.88 0.83


Statement 0.67 0.59 0.69

Overall model performance




Macro average 0.80 0.76 0.78