2 papers
cs.CL2026
Improving Topic Modeling of Social Media Short Texts with Rephrasing: A Case Study of COVID-19 Related Tweets
Wangjiaxuan Xin, Shuhua Yin, Shi Chen +1
Social media platforms such as Twitter (now X) provide rich data for analyzing public discourse, especially during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the brevity, infor…
math.NA2026
Toward Practical Forecasts of Public Sentiments via Convexification for Mean Field Games: Evidence from Real World COVID-19 Discussion Data
Shi Chen, Michael V. Klibanov, Kevin McGoff +3
We apply a convexification-based numerical method to forecast public sentiment dynamics using Mean Field Games (MFGs). The theoretical foundation for the convexification approach,…