3 papers
cs.SI2024
Emoji Retrieval from Gibberish or Garbled Social Media Text: A Novel Methodology and A Case Study
Shuqi Cui, Nirmalya Thakur, Audrey Poon
Emojis are widely used across social media platforms but are often lost in noisy or garbled text, posing challenges for data analysis and machine learning. Conventional preprocessi…
cs.SI2024
Quantifying Public Response to COVID-19 Events: Introducing the Community Sentiment and Engagement Index
Nirmalya Thakur, Kesha A. Patel, Audrey Poon +4
This study introduces the Community Sentiment and Engagement Index (CSEI), developed to capture nuanced public sentiment and engagement variations on social media, particularly in…
cs.SI2023
A Large-Scale Dataset of Search Interests Related to Disease X Originating from Different Geographic Regions
Nirmalya Thakur, Shuqi Cui, Kesha A. Patel +2
The World Health Organization added Disease X to their shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical, unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic. Du…