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CrisisTransformers: Pre-trained language models and sentence encoders for crisis-related social media texts
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera
Social media platforms play an essential role in crisis communication, but analyzing crisis-related social media texts is challenging due to their informal nature. Transformer-base…
A Twitter narrative of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera
Social media platforms contain abundant data that can provide comprehensive knowledge of historical and real-time events. During crisis events, the use of social media peaks, as pe…
BillionCOV: An Enriched Billion-scale Collection of COVID-19 tweets for Efficient Hydration
Rabindra Lamsal, Maria Rodriguez Read, Shanika Karunasekera
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new norms such as social distancing, face masks, quarantine, lockdowns, travel restrictions, work/study from home, and business closures, to name a…