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Since its outbreak, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented losses to human lives and economies around the world. As of 18th July 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 13 million confirmed cases…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Rajdeep Mukherjee , Sriyash Poddar , Atharva Naik , Soham Dasgupta

During the COVID-19 pandemic, "Chinese Virus" emerged as a controversial term for coronavirus. To some, it may seem like a neutral term referring to the physical origin of the virus. To many others, however, the term is in fact attaching…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Long Chen , Hanjia Lyu , Tongyu Yang , Yu Wang , Jiebo Luo

In this paper, we collect and study Twitter communications to understand the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in the United States during the early days of the pandemic. Our analysis reveals that COVID-19 gripped the nation during this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Swaroop Gowdra Shanthakumar , Anand Seetharam , Arti Ramesh

Administering COVID-19 vaccines at a societal scale has been deemed as the most appropriate way to defend against the COVID-19 pandemic. This global vaccination drive naturally fueled a possibility of Pro-Vaxxers and Anti-Vaxxers strongly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Soham Poddar , Mainack Mondal , Janardan Misra , Niloy Ganguly , Saptarshi Ghosh

COVID-19 misinformation on social media platforms such as twitter is a threat to effective pandemic management. Prior works on tweet COVID-19 misinformation negates the role of semantic features common to twitter such as charged emotions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Gabriel Asher , Phil Bohlman , Karsten Kleyensteuber

Twitter and, in general, social media has become an indispensable communication channel in times of emergency. The ubiquitousness of smartphone gadgets enables people to declare an emergency observed in real-time. As a result, more agencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Nickil Maveli

This paper is a comparison study in the context of Topic Detection on COVID-19 data. There are various approaches for Topic Detection, among which the Clustering approach is selected in this paper. Clustering requires distance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Elnaz Zafarani-Moattar , Mohammad Reza Kangavari , Amir Masoud Rahmani

The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has lasted for nearly two years and caused unprecedented impacts on people's daily life around the world. Even worse, the emergence of the COVID-19 Delta variant once again puts…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hui Yin , Xiangyu Song , Shuiqiao Yang , Jianxin Li

Sentiment analysis can largely influence the people to get the update of the current situation. Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a contagious illness caused by the coronavirus 2 that causes severe respiratory symptoms. The lives of millions have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Nosin Ibna Mahbub , Md Rakibul Islam , Md Al Amin , Md Khairul Islam , Bikash Chandra Singh , Md Imran Hossain Showrov , Anirudda Sarkar

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has made the public pay close attention to related news, covering various domains, such as sanitation, treatment, and effects on education. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 condition is very different among the…

We propose a method to discover latent topics and visualise large collections of tweets for easy identification and interpretation of topics, and exemplify its use with tweets from a Colombian mass media giant in the period 2014--2019. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Marlon Steibeck Dominguez , N. Parra-A. , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Jorge E. Camargo

This paper presents the approach that we employed to tackle the EMNLP WNUT-2020 Shared Task 2 : Identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets. The task is to develop a system that automatically identifies whether an English Tweet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Anshul Wadhawan

The COVID-19 pandemic causes severe social and economic disruption around the world, raising various subjects that are discussed over social media. Identifying pandemic-related named entities as expressed on social media is fundamental and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuankang Zhang , Jiangming Liu

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly affected the political scene worldwide and the introduction of new terminology and public opinions regarding the virus has further polarized partisan stances. Using a collection of tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Cindy Kim , Daniela Puchall , Jiangyi Liang , Jiwon Kim

The spread of COVID-19 has become a significant and troubling aspect of society in 2020. With millions of cases reported across countries, new outbreaks have occurred and followed patterns of previously affected areas. Many disease…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

As of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic is full-blown on a global scale, people's need to have access to legitimate information regarding COVID-19 is more urgent than ever, especially via online media where the abundance of irrelevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Thai Quoc Hoang , Phuong Thu Vu

Researches about COVID-19 has increased largely, no matter in the biology field or the others. This research conducted a text analysis using LDA topic model. We firstly scraped totally 1127 articles and 5563 comments on SCMP covering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Minghao Wang , Paolo Mengoni

Social media platforms such as Twitter have a fundamental role in facilitating the spread and discussion of ideas online through the concept of retweeting and replying. However, these features also contribute to the spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-29 James R. Ashford

Detecting and preventing outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue and Zika in Brasil and other tropical regions has long been a priority for governments in affected areas. Streaming social media content, such as Twitter, is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Paolo Missier , Alexander Romanovsky , Tudor Miu , Atinder Pal , Michael Daniilakis , Alessandro Garcia , Diego Cedrim , Leonardo da Silva Sousa

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have enabled connection and communication on a large scale. It has revolutionized the rate at which information is shared and enhanced its reach. However, another side of the coin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Apurva Wani , Isha Joshi , Snehal Khandve , Vedangi Wagh , Raviraj Joshi