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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed the lives of over 350,000 people and infected more than 6 million people worldwide. Several search engines have surfaced to provide researchers with additional tools to find and retrieve…

Semantic textual similarity (STS), a cornerstone task in NLP, measures the degree of similarity between a pair of sentences, and has broad application in fields such as information retrieval and natural language understanding. However,…

The abundance of literature related to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic is beyond manual inspection of a single expert. Development of systems, capable of automatically processing tens of thousands of scientific publications with the aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Matej Martinc , Blaž Škrlj , Sergej Pirkmajer , Nada Lavrač , Bojan Cestnik , Martin Marzidovšek , Senja Pollak

Misinformation of COVID-19 is prevalent on social media as the pandemic unfolds, and the associated risks are extremely high. Thus, it is critical to detect and combat such misinformation. Recently, deep learning models using natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jackie Ayoub , X. Jessie Yang , Feng Zhou

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a comprehensive understanding of public sentiment and reactions. Despite the availability of numerous public datasets on COVID-19, some reaching volumes of up to 100…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qiang Yang , Xiuying Chen , Changsheng Ma , Rui Yin , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

COVID-19 has affected more than 223 countries worldwide and in the Post-COVID Era, there is a pressing need for non-invasive, low-cost, and highly scalable solutions to detect COVID-19. We develop a deep learning model to identify COVID-19…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuyang Yan , Wafaa Aljbawi , Sami O. Simons , Visara Urovi

We present a novel approach to learn representations for sentence-level semantic similarity using conversational data. Our method trains an unsupervised model to predict conversational input-response pairs. The resulting sentence embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yinfei Yang , Steve Yuan , Daniel Cer , Sheng-yi Kong , Noah Constant , Petr Pilar , Heming Ge , Yun-Hsuan Sung , Brian Strope , Ray Kurzweil

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) research has expanded rapidly since 2021, driven by advances in transformer architectures, contrastive learning, and domain-specific techniques. This survey reviews progress across six key areas:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Lokendra Kumar , Neelesh S. Upadhye , Kannan Piedy

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) began in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and to date has infected over 148M people worldwide, resulting in 3.12M deaths. On March 10, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it as a global…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

Measuring Sentence Textual Similarity (STS) is a classic task that can be applied to many downstream NLP applications such as text generation and retrieval. In this paper, we focus on unsupervised STS that works on various domains but only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Zihao Wang , Jiaheng Dou , Yong Zhang

The objective of this work is to explore popular discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic and policies implemented to manage it. Using Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, and Network Analysis to analyze corpus of tweets that relate to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Christian E. Lopez , Malolan Vasu , Caleb Gallemore

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been declared as a pandemic by WHO with thousands of cases being reported each day. Numerous scientific articles are being published on the disease raising the need for a service which can organize, and…

Objective: Social media-based public health research is crucial for epidemic surveillance, but most studies identify relevant corpora with keyword-matching. This study develops a system to streamline the process of curating colloquial…

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The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) which causes COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic. There are ongoing studies with up to hundreds of publications uploaded to databases daily. We are exploring the use-case of artificial intelligence and natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yutong Jin , Jie Li , Xinyu Wang , Peiyao Li , Jinjiang Guo , Junfeng Wu , Dawei Leng , Lurong Pan

The COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world rapidly, infecting millions of people. An efficient tool that can accurately recognize important clinical concepts of COVID-19 from free text in electronic health records (EHRs) will be valuable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jingqi Wang , Noor Abu-el-rub , Josh Gray , Huy Anh Pham , Yujia Zhou , Frank Manion , Mei Liu , Xing Song , Hua Xu , Masoud Rouhizadeh , Yaoyun Zhang

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on various areas of human life. Hence, the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences are being actively discussed on social media. However, not all social media posts are truthful. Many of them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Anna Glazkova , Maksim Glazkov , Timofey Trifonov

Words are malleable objects, influenced by events that are reflected in written texts. Situated in the global outbreak of COVID-19, our research aims at detecting semantic shifts in social media language triggered by the health crisis. With…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yanzhu Guo , Christos Xypolopoulos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

The global world is crossing a pandemic situation where this is a catastrophic outbreak of Respiratory Syndrome recognized as COVID-19. This is a global threat all over the 212 countries that people every day meet with mighty situations. On…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Md. Mahadi Hasan Sany , Mumenunnesa Keya , Sharun Akter Khushbu , Akm Shahariar Azad Rabby , Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum

More than two years after its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague medical systems around the world, putting a strain on scarce resources, and claiming human lives. From the very beginning, various AI-based COVID-19 detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Anastasia Semertzidou , Meishu Song , Florian B. Pokorny , Björn W. Schuller

During this pandemic situation, extracting any relevant information related to COVID-19 will be immensely beneficial to the community at large. In this paper, we present a very important resource, COVIDRead, a Stanford Question Answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Tanik Saikh , Sovan Kumar Sahoo , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya