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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

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed. We have conducted an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Gautam Kishore Shahi , Anne Dirkson , Tim A. Majchrzak

COVID-19 has been devastating the world since the end of 2019 and has continued to play a significant role in major national and worldwide events, and consequently, the news. In its wake, it has left no life unaffected. Having earned the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Shayan Fazeli , Davina Zamanzadeh , Anaelia Ovalle , Thu Nguyen , Gilbert Gee , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Since December 2019, COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly across the world. Not surprisingly, conversation about COVID-19 is also increasing. This article is a first look at the amount of conversation taking place on social media,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Lisa Singh , Shweta Bansal , Leticia Bode , Ceren Budak , Guangqing Chi , Kornraphop Kawintiranon , Colton Padden , Rebecca Vanarsdall , Emily Vraga , Yanchen Wang

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's lives in many ways. Social media data can reveal public perceptions and experience with respect to the pandemic, and also reveal factors that hamper or support efforts to curb global spread of the…

Understanding the public sentiment and perception in a healthcare crisis is essential for developing appropriate crisis management techniques. While some studies have used Twitter data for predictive modelling during COVID-19, fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Adeel Waheed

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first global infodemic. Fighting this infodemic has been declared one…

The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the spread of misinformation on social media and the Web as a whole. The phenomenon dubbed `infodemic' has taken the challenges of information veracity and trust to new heights by massively introducing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Maurício Gruppi , Panayiotis Smeros , Sibel Adalı , Carlos Castillo , Karl Aberer

The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse effects on both physical and mental health. During this pandemic, numerous studies have focused on gaining insights into health-related perspectives from social media. In this study, our primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mahathir Mohammad Bishal , Md. Rakibul Hassan Chowdory , Anik Das , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

In this paper, we explore the use of large language models to assess human interpretations of real world events. To do so, we use a language model trained prior to 2020 to artificially generate news articles concerning COVID-19 given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sil Hamilton , Andrew Piper

Since the emergence of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, relevant research has been published at a dazzling pace, which yields an abundant amount of big data in biomedical literature. Due to the high volum of relevant literature, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yeseul Jeon , Dongjun Chung , Jina Park , Ick Hoon Jin

With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this scoping review, we selected and examined peer-reviewed empirical studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Shu-Feng Tsao , Helen Chen , Therese Tisseverasinghe , Yang Yang , Lianghua Li , Zahid A. Butt

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 outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a bulk of scientific research and related Twitter discussions. To unravel the public concerns about the COVID-19 crisis reflected in the science-based Twitter conversations, this…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zhichao Fang , Rodrigo Costas

The recent global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread to all corners of the globe. The international travel ban, panic buying, and the need for self-quarantine are among the many other social challenges brought about…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ankita Agarwal , Preetham Salehundam , Swati Padhee , William L. Romine , Tanvi Banerjee

Topic models are widely used in studying social phenomena. We conduct a comparative study examining state-of-the-art neural versus non-neural topic models, performing a rigorous quantitative and qualitative assessment on a dataset of tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Andrew Bennett , Dipendra Misra , Nga Than

Humanity is battling one of the most deleterious virus in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic, but along with the pandemic there's an infodemic permeating the pupil and society with misinformation which exacerbates the current malady. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Prathmesh Pathwar , Simran Gill

In this study, we analyze texts of Reddit posts written by students of four major Canadian universities. We gauge the emotional tone and uncover prevailing themes and discussions through longitudinal topic modeling of posts textual data.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Fabian Nwaoha , Ziyad Gaffar , Ho Joon Chun , Marina Sokolova

The purpose of this case study is to leverage the concepts and tools presented in the preceding chapters and apply them in a real world social cybersecurity context. With the COVID-19 pandemic emerging as a defining event of the 21st…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-25 David M. Beskow , Kathleen M. Carley

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in large volumes of data shared on different social media platforms. Analyzing and visualizing these data is doubtlessly essential to having a deep understanding of the pandemic's impacts on people's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Omar Abdel Wahab , Ali Mustafa , André Bertrand Abisseck Bamatakina