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The present paper is about the participation of our team "techno" on CERIST'22 shared tasks. We used an available dataset "task1.c" related to covid-19 pandemic. It comprises 4128 tweets for sentiment analysis task and 8661 tweets for fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rabia Bounaama , Mohammed El Amine Abderrahim

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people started to discuss about pandemic-related topics on social media. On subreddit \textit{r/COVID19positive}, a number of topics are discussed or being shared, including experience of those who got a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Yuhan Liu , Yuhan Gao , Zhifan Nan , Long Chen

Epidemics and pandemics have ravaged human life since time. To combat these, novel ideas have always been created and deployed by humanity, with varying degrees of success. At this very moment, the COVID-19 pandemic is the singular global…

We introduce a FEVER-like dataset COVID-Fact of $4,086$ claims concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset contains claims, evidence for the claims, and contradictory claims refuted by the evidence. Unlike previous approaches, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Arkadiy Saakyan , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Smaranda Muresan

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, large volumes of biomedical information concerning this new disease have been published on social media. Some of this information can pose a real danger to people's health, particularly when false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Isabelle Mohr , Amelie Wührl , Roman Klinger

Being a global pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak received global media attention. In this study, we analyze news publications from CNN and The Guardian - two of the world's most influential media organizations. The dataset includes more than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ali Emre Varol , Veysel Kocaman , Hasham Ul Haq , David Talby

The rapid advancement of social networks and the convenience of internet availability have accelerated the rampant spread of false news and rumors on social media sites. Amid the COVID 19 epidemic, this misleading information has aggravated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Sajib Kumar Saha Joy , Dibyo Fabian Dofadar , Riyo Hayat Khan , Md. Sabbir Ahmed , Rafeed Rahman

The explosion of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has overloaded fact-checkers and media worldwide, and brought a new major challenge to government responses worldwide. Not only is disinformation creating confusion about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xingyi Song , Johann Petrak , Ye Jiang , Iknoor Singh , Diana Maynard , Kalina Bontcheva

The entire world is engulfed in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a significant surge in research experiments, government policies, and social media discussions. A multi-modal information access and data visualization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Heer Ambavi , Kavita Vaishnaw , Udit Vyas , Abhisht Tiwari , Mayank Singh

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a public health emergency of international concern affecting more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. As of September 30, 2020, it has caused a pandemic outbreak with more than 33…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-13 Tanujit Chakraborty , Indrajit Ghosh , Tirna Mahajan , Tejasvi Arora

COVID-19 has created a major public health problem worldwide and other problems such as economic crisis, unemployment, mental distress, etc. The pandemic is deadly in the world and involves many people not only with infection but also with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Khandaker Tayef Shahriar , Iqbal H. Sarker

While the world has been combating COVID-19 for over three years, an ongoing "Infodemic" due to the spread of fake news regarding the pandemic has also been a global issue. The existence of the fake news impact different aspect of our daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chih-Yuan Li , Navya Martin Kollapally , Soon Ae Chun , James Geller

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been continuously affecting human lives and communities around the world in many ways, from cities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ashkan Ebadi , Pengcheng Xi , Stéphane Tremblay , Bruce Spencer , Raman Pall , Alexander Wong

COVID-19 pandemic has generated what public health officials called an infodemic of misinformation. As social distancing and stay-at-home orders came into effect, many turned to social media for socializing. This increase in social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mir Mehedi A. Pritom , Rosana Montanez Rodriguez , Asad Ali Khan , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Esra'a Alrashydah , Beatrice N. Ruiz , Anthony Rios

Timely, creditable, and fine-granular case information is vital for local communities and individual citizens to make rational and data-driven responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents CovidNet, a COVID-19 tracking project…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Tong Yang , Kai Shen , Sixuan He , Enyu Li , Peter Sun , Pingying Chen , Lin Zuo , Jiayue Hu , Yiwen Mo , Weiwei Zhang , Haonan Zhang , Jingxue Chen , Yu Guo

The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the rapid dissemination of papers and preprints investigating the disease and its associated virus, SARS-CoV-2. The multifaceted nature of COVID-19 demands a multidisciplinary approach, but the urgency of the…

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has galvanized the machine learning community to create new solutions that can help in the fight against the virus. The body of literature related to applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Firuz Kamalov , Aswani Cherukuri , Hana Sulieman , Fadi Thabtah , Akbar Hossain

COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, which has reported over 18 million confirmed cases as of August 5, 2020. In this review, we present an overview of recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Joseph Bullock , Alexandra Luccioni , Katherine Hoffmann Pham , Cynthia Sin Nga Lam , Miguel Luengo-Oroz

Social media is a rich source where we can learn about people's reactions to social issues. As COVID-19 has significantly impacted on people's lives, it is essential to capture how people react to public health interventions and understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hyeju Jang , Emily Rempel , Giuseppe Carenini , Naveed Janjua