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The spread of misinformation, conspiracy, and questionable content and information manipulation by foreign adversaries on social media has surged along with the COVID-19 pandemic. Such malicious cyber-enabled actions may cause increasing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Rong-Ching Chang , Chu-Hsing Lin

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's lives around the world on an unprecedented scale. We intend to investigate hoarding behaviors in response to the pandemic using large-scale social media data. First, we collect hoarding-related…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xupin Zhang , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo

In this paper, we present a manually annotated corpus of 10,000 tweets containing public reports of five COVID-19 events, including positive and negative tests, deaths, denied access to testing, claimed cures and preventions. We designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Shi Zong , Ashutosh Baheti , Wei Xu , Alan Ritter

The COVID-19 epidemic has had a great impact on social media conversation, especially on sites like Twitter, which has emerged as a hub for public reaction and information sharing. This paper deals by analyzing a vast dataset of Twitter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Nikhil Kumar Rajput , Bhavya Ahuja Grover , Vipin Kumar Rathi , Riya Bansal

Using a random 10% sample of tweets authored from 2019-09-01 through 2020-04-30, we analyze the dynamic behavior of words (1-grams) used on Twitter to describe the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Across 24 languages, we find two distinct dynamic…

Understanding the characteristics of public attention and sentiment is an essential prerequisite for appropriate crisis management during adverse health events. This is even more crucial during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as primary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Oguzhan Gencoglu , Mathias Gruber

Disruptions resulting from an epidemic might often appear to amount to chaos but, in reality, can be understood in a systematic way through the lens of "epidemic psychology". According to Philip Strong, the founder of the sociological study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Luca Maria Aiello , Daniele Quercia , Ke Zhou , Marios Constantinides , Sanja Šćepanović , Sagar Joglekar

Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is a hazardous disease that has endangered the health of many people around the world by directly affecting the lungs. COVID-19 is a medium-sized, coated virus with a single-stranded RNA, and also has one of the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 was a pandemic disease on the 11th of March as there were 118K cases in several countries and territories. Numerous researchers worked on forecasting the number of confirmed cases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hoang Long Nguyen , Zhenhe Pan , Hashim Abu-gellban , Fang Jin , Yuanlin Zhang

The severity of the coronavirus pandemic necessitates the need of effective administrative decisions. Over 4 lakh people in India succumbed to COVID-19, with over 3 crore confirmed cases, and still counting. The threat of a plausible third…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Mayank Sethi , Ambika Sadhu , Khushbu Pahwa , Sargun Nagpal , Tavpritesh Sethi

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

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

The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been declared a pandemic since March 2020 by the World Health Organization. It consists of an emerging viral infection with respiratory tropism that could develop atypical pneumonia. Experts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Walid Hariri , Ali Narin

COVID-19 has resulted in an ongoing pandemic and as of 12 June 2020, has caused more than 7.4 million cases and over 418,000 deaths. The highly dynamic and rapidly evolving situation with COVID-19 has made it difficult to access accurate,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-25 David Oniani , Yanshan Wang

Twitter has acted as an important source of information during disasters and pandemic, especially during the times of COVID-19. In this paper, we describe our system entry for WNUT 2020 Shared Task-3. The task was aimed at automating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Ayush Kaushal , Tejas Vaidhya

COVID-19 has affected the world economy and the daily life routine of almost everyone. It has been a hot topic on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. These social media platforms enable users to share information with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pervaiz Iqbal Khan , Imran Razzak , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

The construction and application of knowledge graphs have seen a rapid increase across many disciplines in recent years. Additionally, the problem of uncovering relationships between developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dominic Flocco , Bryce Palmer-Toy , Ruixiao Wang , Hongyu Zhu , Rishi Sonthalia , Junyuan Lin , Andrea L. Bertozzi , P. Jeffrey Brantingham

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

At the start of 2020, COVID-19 became the most urgent threat to global public health. Uniquely in recent times, governments have imposed partly voluntary, partly compulsory restrictions on the population to slow the spread of the virus. In…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Mike Thelwall , Saheeda Thelwall