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With the pandemic of COVID-19, relevant fake news is spreading all over the sky throughout the social media. Believing in them without discrimination can cause great trouble to people's life. However, universal language models may perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ben Chen , Bin Chen , Dehong Gao , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo , Xiaonan Meng , Weijun Ren , Yang Zhou

Text extraction is a highly subjective problem which depends on the dataset that one is working on and the kind of summarization details that needs to be extracted out. All the steps ranging from preprocessing of the data, to the choice of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shreyash Rawat , V. Vijayarajan , V. B. Surya Prasath

Covid-19 has spread across the world and several vaccines have been developed to counter its surge. To identify the correct sentiments associated with the vaccines from social media posts, we fine-tune various state-of-the-art pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Anmol Bansal , Arjun Choudhry , Anubhav Sharma , Seba Susan

In the new era of internet systems and applications, a concept of detecting distinguished topics from huge amounts of text has gained a lot of attention. These methods use representation of text in a numerical format -- called embeddings --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Danial Toufani-Movaghar , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi

In this paper we show how the performance of tweet clustering can be improved by leveraging character-based neural networks. The proposed approach overcomes the limitations related to the vocabulary explosion in the word-based models and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Svitlana Vakulenko , Lyndon Nixon , Mihai Lupu

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

Mental illness affects a significant portion of the worldwide population. Online mental health forums can provide a supportive environment for those afflicted and also generate a large amount of data which can be mined to predict mental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Derek Howard , Marta Maslej , Justin Lee , Jacob Ritchie , Geoffrey Woollard , Leon French

Scientific articles are long text documents organized into sections, each describing aspects of the research. Analyzing scientific production has become progressively challenging due to the increase in the number of available articles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Gustavo Bartz Guedes , Ana Estela Antunes da Silva

Social media platforms play an essential role in crisis communication, but analyzing crisis-related social media texts is challenging due to their informal nature. Transformer-based pre-trained models like BERT and RoBERTa have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Rabindra Lamsal , Maria Rodriguez Read , Shanika Karunasekera

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

We investigate ensembling techniques in forecasting and examine their potential for use in nonseasonal time-series similar to those in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Developing improved forecast methods is essential as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Pieter Cawood , Terence L. van Zyl

The abundance of literature related to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic is beyond manual inspection of a single expert. Development of systems, capable of automatically processing tens of thousands of scientific publications with the aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Matej Martinc , Blaž Škrlj , Sergej Pirkmajer , Nada Lavrač , Bojan Cestnik , Martin Marzidovšek , Senja Pollak

We investigate the potential benefit of incorporating dictionary information into a neural network architecture for natural language processing. In particular, we make use of this architecture to extract several concepts related to COVID-19…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Abul Hasan , Mark Levene , David Weston

The way the words are used evolves through time, mirroring cultural or technological evolution of society. Semantic change detection is the task of detecting and analysing word evolution in textual data, even in short periods of time. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Matej Martinc , Syrielle Montariol , Elaine Zosa , Lidia Pivovarova

Understanding patient feedback is crucial for improving healthcare services, yet analyzing unlabeled short-text feedback presents challenges due to limited data and domain-specific nuances. Traditional supervised approaches require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 K M Sajjadul Islam , Ravi Teja Karri , Srujan Vegesna , Jiawei Wu , Praveen Madiraju

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

Nowadays, the development of social media allows people to access the latest news easily. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important for people to access the news so that they can take corresponding protective measures. However, the fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yuxiang Wang , Yongheng Zhang , Xuebo Li , Xinyao Yu

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke

This paper introduces a temporal framework for detecting and clustering emergent and viral topics on social networks. Endogenous and exogenous influence on developing viral content is explored using a clustering method based on the a user's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Abbas Ehsanfar , Mo Mansouri

As the impact of technology on our lives is increasing, we witness increased use of social media that became an essential tool not only for communication but also for sharing information with community about our thoughts and feelings. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Ilija Tavchioski , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak