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Detection of COVID-19 informative tweets using RoBERTa

Computation and Language 2020-10-23 v1 Social and Information Networks

Abstract

Social media such as Twitter is a hotspot of user-generated information. In this ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an abundance of data on social media which can be classified as informative and uninformative content. In this paper, we present our work to detect informative Covid-19 English tweets using RoBERTa model as a part of the W-NUT workshop 2020. We show the efficacy of our model on a public dataset with an F1-score of 0.89 on the validation dataset and 0.87 on the leaderboard.

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@article{arxiv.2010.11238,
  title  = {Detection of COVID-19 informative tweets using RoBERTa},
  author = {Sirigireddy Dhanalaxmi and Rohit Agarwal and Aman Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11238},
  year   = {2020}
}
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