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Coronavirus Goes Viral: Quantifying the COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic on Twitter

Cureus, 2020
Background Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, misinformation has been spreading uninhibited over traditional and social media at a rapid pace. We sought to analyze the magnitude of misinformation that is being spread
Ramez Kouzy, J. Abi Jaoude, A. Kraitem, Molly B. El Alam, Basil S. Karam, E. Adib, Jabra Zarka, C. Traboulsi, E. Akl, Khalil Baddour   +9 more
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COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
Background Since the beginning of December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread rapidly around the world, which has led to increased discussions across online platforms. These conversations have also included various conspiracies shared by
Wasim Ahmed, Josep Vidal-Alaball, J. Downing, F. López Seguí   +3 more
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SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter [PDF]

International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2017
This paper describes the fifth year of the Sentiment Analysis in Twitter task. SemEval-2017 Task 4 continues with a rerun of the subtasks of SemEval-2016 Task 4, which include identifying the overall sentiment of the tweet, sentiment towards a topic with
Sara Rosenthal, N. Farra, Preslav Nakov
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Invited Guest Editorial. Lives Worthy of Life: The Everyday Resistance of Disabled People

Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2016
‘Spoiler alert’: This editorial speaks to that of Dr. John Williamson that is published in this years issue. I have made some effort to avoid revealing too much of the “plot” but those of you who prefer to enjoy the mystery of the disappearing/appearing ...
Nick Hodge
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Elite Tweets: Analysing the Twitter Communication Patterns of Labour Party Peers in the House of Lords [PDF]

, 2014
The micro-blogging platform Twitter has gained notoriety for its status as both a communication channel between private individuals, and as a public forum monitored by journalists, the public, and the state.
Erickson, Kristofer, Lilleker, Darren G., Erickson, K., Kristofer Erickson, Darren G. Lilleker, Ana Adi, Erickson, K, Lilleker, DG, Adi, A., Adi, Ana, Erickson, Kris, Adi, A, Lilleker, Darren   +12 more
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Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016
Hate speech in the form of racist and sexist remarks are a common occurrence on social media. For that reason, many social media services address the problem of identifying hate speech, but the definition of hate speech varies markedly and is largely a ...
Zeerak Talat, Dirk Hovy
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Global Sentiments Surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter: Analysis of Twitter Trends

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2020
Background With the World Health Organization’s pandemic declaration and government-initiated actions against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), sentiments surrounding COVID-19 have evolved rapidly.
M. Lwin, Jiahui Lu, Anita Sheldenkar, P. Schulz, W. Shin, R. Gupta, Yinping Yang   +6 more
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O que Realmente Importa no Processo de Tomada de Decisão Considerando Políticas Públicas Baseadas em Evidência

Revista Administração em Diálogo, 2016
Políticas públicas fundamentadas em evidência têm se tornado uma parte fundamental da forma de agir de muitos governos ao redor do mundo como resposta à necessidade de prestar contas de suas decisões e ações. No contexto de políticas públicas compreender
Carlos Germano Ferreira Costa, Edson Vicente Da Silva   +1 more
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Twitter anticipates bursts of requests for Wikipedia articles [PDF]

, 2013
Most of the tweets that users exchange on Twitter make implicit mentions of named-entities, which in turn can be mapped to corresponding Wikipedia articles using proper Entity Linking (EL) techniques. Some of those become trending entities on Twitter due
Lucchese, Claudio, Orlando, Salvatore, Salvatore Orlando, Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Gabriele Tolomei, Salvatore Orl, Tolomei, Gabriele, Ceccarelli, Diego, Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Gabriele Tolomei   +12 more
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Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment

International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2010
Twitter is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of short messages on a variety of topics every day. This study uses the context of the German federal election to investigate whether Twitter is used as a forum for political ...
A. Tumasjan, T. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sandner, I. Welpe   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source