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most citedDetecting Elevated Air Pollution Levels by Monitoring Web Search Queries: Deep Learning-Based Time Series Forecasting

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cs.CL2021

Semi-Supervised Text Classification via Self-Pretraining

Payam Karisani, Negin Karisani

We present a neural semi-supervised learning model termed Self-Pretraining. Our model is inspired by the classic self-training algorithm. However, as opposed to self-training, Self…

cs.CL2021

View Distillation with Unlabeled Data for Extracting Adverse Drug Effects from User-Generated Data

Payam Karisani, Jinho D. Choi, Li Xiong

We present an algorithm based on multi-layer transformers for identifying Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) in social media data. Our model relies on the properties of the problem and t…

cs.CL2020

Domain-Guided Task Decomposition with Self-Training for Detecting Personal Events in Social Media

Payam Karisani, Joyce C. Ho, Eugene Agichtein

Mining social media content for tasks such as detecting personal experiences or events, suffer from lexical sparsity, insufficient training data, and inventive lexicons. To reduce…

cs.CL2020

Mining Coronavirus (COVID-19) Posts in Social Media

Negin Karisani, Payam Karisani

World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a global pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Before this and in late January, more specifically on Janua…

cs.CL2018

Did You Really Just Have a Heart Attack? Towards Robust Detection of Personal Health Mentions in Social Media

Payam Karisani, Eugene Agichtein

Millions of users share their experiences on social media sites, such as Twitter, which in turn generate valuable data for public health monitoring, digital epidemiology, and other…