COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, which has reported over 18 million confirmed cases as of …
G Muric, Y Wu, E Ferrara - JMIR public health and surveillance, 2021 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background False claims about COVID-19 vaccines can undermine public trust in ongoing vaccination campaigns, posing a threat to global public health. Misinformation originating …
S Boon-Itt, Y Skunkan - JMIR public health and surveillance, 2020 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: COVID-19 is a scientifically and medically novel disease that is not fully understood because it has yet to be consistently and deeply studied. Among the gaps in …
Background It is important to measure the public response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Twitter is an important data source for infodemiology studies involving public response …
R Chandrasekaran, V Mehta, T Valkunde… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background With restrictions on movement and stay-at-home orders in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms such as Twitter have become an outlet for …
Abstract As of July 17, 2020, more than thirteen million people have been diagnosed with the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), and half a million people have already lost their lives …
The ongoing pandemic has heightened the need for developing tools to flag COVID-19- related misinformation on the internet, specifically on social media such as Twitter. However …
In December 2019, a novel virus named COVID-19 emerged in the city of Wuhan, China. In early 2020, the COVID-19 virus spread in all continents of the world except Antarctica …
Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP), providing a highly useful, task-agnostic foundation for a wide range of …