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The FakeNews task in MediaEval 2022 investigates the challenge of finding accurate and high-performance models for the classification of conspiracy tweets related to COVID-19. In this paper, we used BERT, ELMO, and their combination for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Abdul Rehman , Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi , Irfan ul Haq Qureshi , Akmal Saeed Khattak

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

We describe the systems developed for the WNUT-2020 shared task 2, identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets. BERT is a highly performant model for Natural Language Processing tasks. We increased BERT's performance in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Dylan Whang , Soroush Vosoughi

This paper presents our approach for task 2 and task 3 of Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2020 shared tasks. In task 2, we have to differentiate adverse drug reaction (ADR) tweets from nonADR tweets and is treated as binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Katikapalli Subramanyam Kalyan , S. Sangeetha

Government-sponsored policy-making and scheme generations is one of the means of protecting and promoting the social, economic, and personal development of the citizens. The evaluation of effectiveness of these schemes done by government…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aarzoo Dhiman , Durga Toshniwal

The present paper is about the participation of our team "techno" on CERIST'22 shared tasks. We used an available dataset "task1.c" related to covid-19 pandemic. It comprises 4128 tweets for sentiment analysis task and 8661 tweets for fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rabia Bounaama , Mohammed El Amine Abderrahim

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

Health related social media mining is a valuable apparatus for the early recognition of the diverse antagonistic medicinal conditions. Mostly, the existing methods are based on machine learning with knowledge-based learning. This working…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Vinayakumar R , Barathi Ganesh HB , Anand Kumar M , Soman KP

An ever-increasing amount of social media content requires advanced AI-based computer programs capable of extracting useful information. Specifically, the extraction of health-related content from social media is useful for the development…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pervaiz Iqbal Khan , Muhammad Nabeel Asim , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

We describe our system for WNUT-2020 shared task on the identification of informative COVID-19 English tweets. Our system is an ensemble of various machine learning methods, leveraging both traditional feature-based classifiers as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Chawla , Gaurav Verma

Social media platforms such as Twitter (now X) provide rich data for analyzing public discourse, especially during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the brevity, informality, and noise of social media short texts often hinder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Wangjiaxuan Xin , Shuhua Yin , Shi Chen , Yaorong Ge

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in NLP tasks. However, there is a paucity of studies that attempt to evaluate their performances on social media-based health-related natural language processing tasks, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yuting Guo , Anthony Ovadje , Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi , Abeed Sarker

As of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic is full-blown on a global scale, people's need to have access to legitimate information regarding COVID-19 is more urgent than ever, especially via online media where the abundance of irrelevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Thai Quoc Hoang , Phuong Thu Vu

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

COVID-19 pandemic has generated what public health officials called an infodemic of misinformation. As social distancing and stay-at-home orders came into effect, many turned to social media for socializing. This increase in social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mir Mehedi A. Pritom , Rosana Montanez Rodriguez , Asad Ali Khan , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Esra'a Alrashydah , Beatrice N. Ruiz , Anthony Rios

Objective: This study aims to develop an end-to-end natural language processing pipeline for triage and diagnosis of COVID-19 from patient-authored social media posts, in order to provide researchers and public health practitioners with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Abul Hasan , Mark Levene , David Weston , Renate Fromson , Nicolas Koslover , Tamara Levene

Recently, COVID-19 has affected a variety of real-life aspects of the world and led to dreadful consequences. More and more tweets about COVID-19 has been shared publicly on Twitter. However, the plurality of those Tweets are uninformative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Social media posts contain potentially valuable information about medical conditions and health-related behavior. Biocreative VII Task 3 focuses on mining this information by recognizing mentions of medications and dietary supplements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Carol Anderson , Bo Liu , Anas Abidin , Hoo-Chang Shin , Virginia Adams

The sharing of fake news and conspiracy theories on social media has wide-spread negative effects. By designing and applying different machine learning models, researchers have made progress in detecting fake news from text. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Haoming Guo , Tianyi Huang , Huixuan Huang , Mingyue Fan , Gerald Friedland

While misinformation and disinformation have been thriving in social media for years, with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the health misinformation merged, thus elevating the problem to a whole new level and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Alex Nikolov , Giovanni Da San Martino , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov