Deep autoencoders improve health tweet clustering.
problem Accurate clustering of health-related tweets.
method Deep convolutional autoencoders for learning compact tweet representations.
result Clustering performance significantly outperforms conventional methods.
A lack of information exists about the health issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people who are often excluded from national demographic assessments, health studies, and clinical trials. As a result, medical experts and researchers lack a holistic understanding of the health disparities fa…
Social media based digital epidemiology has the potential to support faster response and deeper understanding of public health related threats. This study proposes a new framework to analyze unstructured health related textual data via Twitter users' post (tweets) to characterize the negative health sentiments and non-…
Study analyzes misinformation on social media during COVID-19.
problem Misinformation spreads on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting public health adherence.
method Analysis of model-labeled data, random forest classifier, sentiment analysis.
result Misinformation tweets show more negative sentiment and evolve over time, incorporating details from unrelated theories.
This study seeks to validate a search protocol of ill health-related terms using Twitter data which can later be used to understand if, and how, Twitter can reveal information on the current health situation. We extracted conversations related to health and disease postings on Twitter using a set of pre-defined keyword…
Social media provide a platform for users to express their opinions and share information. Understanding public health opinions on social media, such as Twitter, offers a unique approach to characterizing common health issues such as diabetes, diet, exercise, and obesity (DDEO), however, collecting and analyzing a larg…
Although there are millions of transgender people in the world, a lack of information exists about their health issues. This issue has consequences for the medical field, which only has a nascent understanding of how to identify and meet this population's health-related needs. Social media sites like Twitter provide ne…
Social media services such as Twitter are a valuable source of information for decision support systems. Many studies have shown that this also holds for the medical domain, where Twitter is considered a viable tool for public health officials to sift through relevant information for the early detection, management, an…
Exploiting the large amount of available data for addressing relevant social problems has been one of the key challenges in data mining. Such efforts have been recently named "data science for social good" and attracted the attention of several researchers and institutions. We give a contribution in this objective in t…
Twitter has provided a great opportunity for public libraries to disseminate information for a variety of purposes. Twitter data have been applied in different domains such as health, politics, and history. There are thousands of public libraries in the US, but no study has yet investigated the content of their social …
Study uses machine learning to analyze Twitter sentiments about COVID-19.
problem Examining public concerns and sentiments about COVID-19 from Twitter.
method Machine learning (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to identify topics and sentiments.
result Identified 13 topics and categorized into five themes, revealing dominant fears and mixed feelings.
This paper tackles tweet classification by identifying purpose and position.
problem Difficulties in determining user intention and attitude in short, informal tweets.
method Transformed tweet classification into a multi-label problem and applied a multi-label classification method with post-processing.
result The method effectively classifies tweet purpose and position, outperforming individual classification methods.
In this paper, we consider the problem of predicting demographics of geographic units given geotagged Tweets that are composed within these units. Traditional survey methods that offer demographics estimates are usually limited in terms of geographic resolution, geographic boundaries, and time intervals. Thus, it would…
This article presents a preliminary approach towards characterizing political fake news on Twitter through the analysis of their meta-data. In particular, we focus on more than 1.5M tweets collected on the day of the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States of America. We use the meta-data embedd…
Study uses machine learning to detect depression in Twitter users.
problem Detecting depression in Twitter users using social media data.
method Machine learning techniques applied to Twitter activity and tweet features.
result More features improve accuracy in detecting depressed users.
Social media has recently emerged as a premier method to disseminate information online. Through these online networks, tens of millions of individuals communicate their thoughts, personal experiences, and social ideals. We therefore explore the potential of social media to predict, even prior to onset, Major Depressiv…
Study examines perceptions and attitudes about breast cancer on Twitter.
problem Understanding public perceptions and attitudes towards breast cancer on social media.
method Identified and collected tweets, used topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
result Identified themes and quantified users' perceptions and emotions about breast cancer.
I-AID categorizes disaster tweets into useful information types.
problem Filtering useful information from social media during disasters.
method Multimodel approach using BERT, GAT, and Relation Network.
result I-AID outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in F1 scores.
Analyzes how Trump's tweets impact global stock markets.
problem Understanding the financial impact of presidential tweets on stock markets.
method Examined tweets from Donald Trump's presidency, collected from The Guardian and Bloomberg, and analyzed their effect on equity indices.
result Identified tweets that significantly influenced stock market indices.
ArSentD-LEV dataset improves sentiment analysis in Levantine Arabic tweets.
problem Challenges in sentiment analysis of Arabic tweets, especially Levantine dialect.
method Created a dataset of 4,000 Levantine Arabic tweets with detailed sentiment and topic annotations.
result Improved performance of sentiment classifiers with detailed annotations.
Paper presents a model for identifying informative COVID-19 tweets.
problem Identifying informative COVID-19 tweets on Twitter.
method Leveraged transformers (RoBERTa, XLNet, BERTweet) trained in Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) setting.
result Achieved F1 score of 0.9011 on test set, ranking 7th on leaderboard.
Deep learning model extracts location references from tweets during emergencies.
problem Challenges in extracting reliable location information from tweets during crises.
method Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based model.
result Achieved high accuracy in extracting location references from tweets.
Improved neural model predicts gender from tweets.
problem Predicting gender from Twitter text.
method RNN model with attention, LSA-reduced n-gram features.
result Improved model achieves state-of-the-art performance on English tweets.
Cluster analysis is a field of data analysis that extracts underlying patterns in data. One application of cluster analysis is in text-mining, the analysis of large collections of text to find similarities between documents. We used a collection of about 30,000 tweets extracted from Twitter just before the World Cup st…
Deep learning model classifies tweets for disaster rescue scheduling.
problem Efficiently processing and categorizing tweets for disaster rescue.
method Combining attention-based Bi-directional LSTM and CNN with pre-trained word vectors for classification and feature engineering.
result Proposed model outperforms other methods in Precision, Recall, F1-score, and Accuracy.
Since the events of the Arab Spring, there has been increased interest in using social media to anticipate social unrest. While efforts have been made toward automated unrest prediction, we focus on filtering the vast volume of tweets to identify tweets relevant to unrest, which can be provided to downstream users for …
Study categorizes and analyzes emotions in sexist tweets.
problem Lack of defined categories for sexism in NLP.
method Used a new dataset from SemEval-2018 to classify and analyze emotions in sexist tweets.
result Demonstrated the mental state and affectual state of users who tweet in different categories of sexism.
D2KLab's approach predicts tweet engagement using two stages.
problem Predicting user engagement with tweets.
method Two-stage approach: feature learning and ensemble XGBoost.
result Ranked 22 in the 2020 RecSys Challenge leaderboard.
Paper proposes Experts Model for better emotion detection in tweets.
problem Estimating intensity of emotion in tweets.
method Inspired by Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, each expert learns different features.
result Our Experts Model stands at top-5 results in emotion detection.
Gang violence is a severe issue in major cities across the U.S. and recent studies [Patton et al. 2017] have found evidence of social media communications that can be linked to such violence in communities with high rates of exposure to gang activity. In this paper we partnered computer scientists with social work rese…
Social networking sites such as Twitter have provided a great opportunity for organizations such as public libraries to disseminate information for public relations purposes. However, there is a need to analyze vast amounts of social media data. This study presents a computational approach to explore the content of twe…
Dataset analyzes tweets' impact on stock returns.
problem Understanding how public opinion affects stock market outcomes.
method Created a dataset of 862,231 labeled tweets, provided baselines and multi-view learning approach.
result Demonstrated the impact of tweets on stock returns over various time frames.
Framework detects cyber threats from Twitter tweets.
problem Time-consuming manual extraction of cyber threat intelligence.
method Novelty detection model trained on CVE data.
result F1-score of 0.643 for classifying cyber threat tweets.
TBIP uses texts to quantify lawmakers' political positions.
problem Quantifying lawmakers' political positions from speeches, tweets, etc.
method Unsupervised probabilistic topic model analyzing texts.
result TBIP separates lawmakers by party and infers ideal points close to vote-based.
New tool detects weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media.
problem Detecting Islamophobic hate speech on social media is challenging due to its varied nature.
method Built a multi-class classifier distinguishing between non-Islamophobic, weak Islamophobic, and strong Islamophobic content using GloVe word embeddings.
result Accuracy of 77.6% and balanced accuracy of 83% on a dataset of 109,488 tweets.
Simple model classifies traffic tweets from Twitter using word embeddings.
problem Sparsity and curse of dimensionality in bag-of-words representation for traffic tweets.
method Proposes a word embedding-based framework to classify traffic-related tweets from non-traffic ones.
result State-of-the-art test accuracy of 95.9% achieved with a simple model.
Crowdsourcing and active learning reduce manual annotation in social media event classification.
problem Manual annotation is time-consuming and resource-intensive in social media event classification.
method Crowdsourcing pipeline combined with active learning strategies.
result Active learning strategies help reduce the number of tweets needed for classification.
This paper studies users' perception regarding a controversial product, namely self-driving (autonomous) cars. To find people's opinion regarding this new technology, we used an annotated Twitter dataset, and extracted the topics in positive and negative tweets using an unsupervised, probabilistic model known as topic …
This paper tackles spam detection on Twitter by analyzing correlated features.
problem Spam detection on social media, especially Twitter, to improve user experience.
method Extracted tweet-based and user-based features, identified correlated features, and used artificial neural networks for classification.
result Achieved 97.57% accuracy in classifying tweets as spam or non-spam.
Improved offensive language detection in tweets with multiple deep learning models.
problem Detecting offensive language in tweets using machine learning.
method Combination of multiple deep learning architectures for classification.
result Achieved macro-average F1-scores of 0.76, 0.68, 0.54 for different tasks.
A dynamic keyword selection model for topic modeling of tweets.
problem Adjusting keywords dynamically to mimic past topics with novelty.
method Generative process selects keywords and documents, trained with variational lower bound and stochastic gradient optimization.
result Keyword-based topic model outperforms a sophisticated baseline model by 67%.
Study predicts cryptocurrency price movements using Twitter sentiment analysis.
problem Predicting short-term price movements of cryptocurrencies.
method Conditional examination of return and excess return rates following tweet publication.
result Statistically significant increases in return rates within the first three minutes after tweet publication.
System detects financial forecasts in tweets, achieving high precision.
problem Detecting financial forecasts in social media messages.
method Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques for real-time analysis.
result Achieves over 90% precision for financial forecasts.
Study uses LLMs to categorize financial tweets, revealing useful sentiment signals.
problem Discovering meaningful sentiment signals from unstructured financial social media data.
method Leveraged LLMs to automatically label financial tweets with event categories and aligned with returns.
result Certain event labels consistently yield negative alpha, with statistically significant Sharpe ratios and information coefficients.
Study examines how social media sentiment impacts biotech stocks.
problem Understanding the impact of social media on biotech stock prices.
method VADER sentiment analysis, ARIMA, and VAR models were used to forecast stock market performance.
result Complex interplay between tweet sentiment and stock market performance was identified.
This paper classifies tweets into positive and negative sentiments using distributed word and sentence representations.
problem Classifying tweets into positive and negative sentiments.
method Used distributed representations of words and sentences, and LSTM and CNN networks for classification.
result Achieved accuracies as high as 81%.
GCAN detects fake news on social media with explanations.
problem Detecting fake news on social media with explanations.
method Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks (GCAN).
result GCAN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy.
Adversarial tweets can fool stock prediction models, causing financial loss.
problem Vulnerability of stock prediction models to adversarial attacks on social media.
method Solving combinatorial optimization problems with semantic and budget constraints to generate adversarial tweets.
result Adversarial tweets can fool stock prediction models and cause significant financial loss.