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In this paper, we collect and study Twitter communications to understand the societal impact of COVID-19 in the United States during the early days of the pandemic. With infections soaring rapidly, users took to Twitter asking people to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Swaroop Gowdra Shanthakumar , Anand Seetharam , Arti Ramesh

This paper describes a large global dataset on people's discourse and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic over the Twitter platform. From 28 January 2020 to 1 June 2022, we collected and processed over 252 million Twitter posts from more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Raj Kumar Gupta , Ajay Vishwanath , Yinping Yang

Since the classification of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there have been many attempts to treat and contain the virus. Although there is no specific antiviral treatment recommended for COVID-19, there are several drugs that can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ramya Tekumalla , Juan M. Banda

When any extraordinary event takes place in the world wide area, it is the social media that acts as the fastest carrier of the news along with the consequences dealt with that event. One can gather much information through social networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Mohammad Maksood Akhter , Devpriya Kanojia

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

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

Events of various kinds are mentioned and discussed in text documents, whether they are books, news articles, blogs or microblog feeds. The paper starts by giving an overview of how events are treated in linguistics and philosophy. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Jugal Kalita

This paper illustrates five different techniques to assess the distinctiveness of topics, key terms and features, speed of information dissemination, and network behaviors for Covid19 tweets. First, we use pattern matching and second, topic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Catherine Ordun , Sanjay Purushotham , Edward Raff

COVID-19 has caused lasting damage to almost every domain in public health, society, and economy. To monitor the pandemic trend, existing studies rely on the aggregation of traditional statistical models and epidemic spread theory. In other…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yichao Zhou , Jyun-yu Jiang , Xiusi Chen , Wei Wang

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an infodemic where an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 related content was being disseminated at high velocity through social media. This made it challenging for citizens to differentiate between accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yida Mu , Ye Jiang , Freddy Heppell , Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

Community question answering and discussion platforms such as Reddit, Yahoo! answers or Quora provide users the flexibility of asking open ended questions to a large audience, and replies to such questions maybe useful both to the user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Manisha Verma , Kapil Thadani , Shaunak Mishra

COVID-19 has brought about many changes in social dynamics. Stay-at-home orders and disruptions in school teaching can influence bullying behavior in-person and online, both of which leading to negative outcomes in victims. To study…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Christopher Perez , Sayar Karmakar

Millions of people around the world are sharing COVID-19 related information on social media platforms. Since not all the information shared on the social media is useful, a machine learning system to identify informative posts can help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Kumud Chauhan

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in December 2019, progressed in a complicated manner and thus caused problems worldwide. Seeking clues to the reasons for the complicated progression is necessary but challenging in the fight against the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Vu Tran , Tomoko Matsui

In the contemporary era, social media platforms amass an extensive volume of social data contributed by their users. In order to promptly grasp the opinions and emotional inclinations of individuals regarding a product or event, it becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jitendra Tembhurne , Anant Agrawal , Kirtan Lakhotia

Event Argument extraction refers to the task of extracting structured information from unstructured text for a particular event of interest. The existing works exhibit poor capabilities to extract causal event arguments like Reason and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Debanjana Kar , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal

This paper describes the participation of the QMUL-SDS team for Task 1 of the CLEF 2020 CheckThat! shared task. The purpose of this task is to determine the check-worthiness of tweets about COVID-19 to identify and prioritise tweets that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Rabab Alkhalifa , Theodore Yoong , Elena Kochkina , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata

While keyphrase extraction has received considerable attention in recent years, relatively few studies exist on extracting keyphrases from social media platforms such as Twitter, and even fewer for extracting disaster-related keyphrases…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Cornelia Caragea , Doina Caragea

At the time of this writing, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak has already put tremendous strain on many countries' citizens, resources and economies around the world. Social distancing measures, travel bans,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Emily Chen , Kristina Lerman , Emilio Ferrara

Social media is a rich source where we can learn about people's reactions to social issues. As COVID-19 has significantly impacted on people's lives, it is essential to capture how people react to public health interventions and understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hyeju Jang , Emily Rempel , Giuseppe Carenini , Naveed Janjua