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most citedA large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset for open scientific research -- an international collaboration

311 citations · 352 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2023

Leveraging Large Language Models and Weak Supervision for Social Media data annotation: an evaluation using COVID-19 self-reported vaccination tweets

Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M. Banda

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented significant challenges to the healthcare industry and society as a whole. With the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines, social media platform…

cs.CL2022

Identifying epidemic related Tweets using noisy learning

Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M. Banda

Supervised learning algorithms are heavily reliant on annotated datasets to train machine learning models. However, the curation of the annotated datasets is laborious and time con…

cs.CL2022

TweetDIS: A Large Twitter Dataset for Natural Disasters Built using Weak Supervision

Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M. Banda

Social media is often utilized as a lifeline for communication during natural disasters. Traditionally, natural disaster tweets are filtered from the Twitter stream using the name…

cs.IR2020

Characterizing drug mentions in COVID-19 Twitter Chatter

Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M. Banda

Since the classification of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there have been many attempts to treat and contain the virus. Although there is no specific antiviral treatment recommend…

cs.SI2020★ 311 cited

A large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset for open scientific research -- an international collaboration

Juan M. Banda, Ramya Tekumalla, Guanyu Wang +6

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its march around the world, an unprecedented amount of open data is being generated for genetics and epidemiological research. The unparalleled r…

cs.IR2020★ 16 cited

A large-scale Twitter dataset for drug safety applications mined from publicly existing resources

Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M. Banda

With the increase in popularity of deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, in the field of Pharmacovigilance, more specifically for the identification of…

cs.IR2020★ 25 cited

Social Media Mining Toolkit (SMMT)

Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M. Banda

There has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of utilizing social media data for research purposes within the biomedical community. In PubMed alone, there have been nearly 2…