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Objective: This study aims to consider small graphs of concepts and exploit them for expressing graph searches over existing COVID-19-related literature, leveraging the increasing use of graphs to represent and query scientific knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Francesco Invernici , Anna Bernasconi , Stefano Ceri

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, it is possible that substantial damage to population well-being will result. This study relies on Google…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Abel Brodeur , Andrew E. Clark , Sarah Fleche , Nattavudh Powdthavee

People turn to search engines and social media to seek information during population-level events, such as during civil unrest, disease outbreaks, fires, or flood. They also tend to participate in discussions and disseminate information and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Mehak Fatima , Aimal Rextin , Mehwish Nasim , Osman Yusuf

People are likely to engage in collective behaviour online during extreme events, such as the COVID-19 crisis, to express their awareness, actions and concerns. Hong Kong has implemented stringent public health and social measures (PHSMs)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhanwei Du , Xiao Zhang , Lin Wang , Sidan Yao , Yuan Bai , Qi Tan , Xiaoke Xu , Sen Pei , Jingyi Xiao , Tim K. Tsang , Qiuyan Liao , Eric Lau , Peng Wu , Chao Gao , Benjamin J Cowling

The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in international efforts to understand, track, and mitigate the disease, yielding a significant corpus of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2-related publications across scientific disciplines. As of May 2020,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Andre Esteva , Anuprit Kale , Romain Paulus , Kazuma Hashimoto , Wenpeng Yin , Dragomir Radev , Richard Socher

The world has seen in 2020 an unprecedented global outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, a new strain of coronavirus, causing the COVID-19 pandemic, and radically changing our lives and work conditions. Many scientists are working tirelessly to find a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Pierre Le Bras , Azimeh Gharavi , David A. Robb , Ana F. Vidal , Stefano Padilla , Mike J. Chantler

The disease called the new coronavirus (COVID19) is a new viral respiratory disease that first appeared on January 13, 2020 in Wuhan, China. Some of the symptoms of this disease are fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Yunus Emre Erdoğan , Ali Narin

We estimate the effect of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on racial animus, as measured by Google searches and Twitter posts including a commonly used anti-Asian racial slur. Our empirical strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous…

General Economics · Economics 2020-07-06 Runjing Lu , Yanying Sheng

Over the past few months, there were huge numbers of circulating tweets and discussions about Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Arab region. It is important for policy makers and many people to identify types of shared tweets to better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Hamdy Mubarak , Sabit Hassan

Despite being an integral tool for finding health-related information online, YouTube has faced criticism for disseminating COVID-19 misinformation globally to its users. Yet, prior audit studies have predominantly investigated YouTube…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hayoung Jung , Prerna Juneja , Tanushree Mitra

The epidemic disease, called the new coronavirus (COVID19), firstly occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019. COVID19 was announced as an epidemic by World Health Organization soon after. Some of the symptoms of this disease are fever,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yunus Emre Erdoğan , Ali Narin

The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic affected more than 186 million people with over 4 million deaths worldwide by June 2021. The magnitude of which has strained global healthcare systems. Chest Computed Tomography (CT) scans…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-28 Aryan Verma , Sagar B. Amin , Muhammad Naeem , Monjoy Saha

While privacy perceptions and behaviors have been investigated in Western societies, little is known about these issues in non-Western societies. To bridge this gap, we interviewed 30 Google personal account holders in Saudi Arabia about…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Eman Alashwali , Lorrie Faith Cranor

The emergence of social network site has attracted many users across the world to share their feeling, news, achievements and personal thoughts over several platforms. The recent crisis due to worldwide lockdown amid COVID 19 has shown how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohammad Muzammil Khan , Shahab Saquib Sohail , Darakhshan Ishrat

In confronting the global spread of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic we must have coordinated medical, operational, and political responses. In all efforts, data is crucial. Fundamentally, and in the possible absence of a vaccine…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a COVID-19 was a global pandemic in March 2020. It was initially started in china in the year 2019 December and affected an expanding number of nations in various countries in the last few…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Kranthi Kumar Lella , Alphonse PJA

Disease spread is a complex phenomenon requiring an interdisciplinary approach. Covid-19 exhibited a global spatial spread in a very short time frame resulting in a global pandemic. Data of web search effort in Greece on Covid-19 as a topic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-23 Aristides Moustakas

COVID-19 has been affecting every aspect of societal life including human mobility since December, 2019. In this paper, we study the impact of COVID-19 on human mobility patterns at the state level within the United States. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Songhe Wang , Kangda Wei , Lei Lin , Weizi Li

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a global pandemic with community circulation in many countries, including the U.S. where every state is reporting confirmed cases. The course of this pandemic will be largely shaped by how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Ana I. Bento , Thuy Nguyen , Coady Wing , Felipe Lozano-Rojas , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Kosali Simon

The emergence of the novel COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on global healthcare and the economy over the past few months. The virus's rapid widespread has led to a proliferation in biomedical research addressing the pandemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chongyan Chen , Islam Akef Ebeid , Yi Bu , Ying Ding