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most citedMining Public Opinion about Economic Issues: Twitter and the U.S. Presidential Election

86 citations · 273 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.SI2021★ 54 cited

COVID-19 Vaccine and Social Media: Exploring Emotions and Discussions on Twitter

Amir Karami, Michael Zhu, Bailey Goldschmidt +2

The understanding of the public response to COVID-19 vaccines is the key success factor to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the public response, there is a need to expl…

cs.SI2020

Social Media and COVID-19: Can Social Distancing be Quantified without Measuring Human Movements?

Mackenzie Anderson, Amir Karami, Parisa Bozorgi

The COVID-19 outbreak has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. In the absence of treatment for this virus, public health officials asked the public to…

physics.soc-ph2019

Unwanted Advances in Higher Education: Uncovering Sexual Harassment Experiences in Academia with Text Mining

Amir Karami, Cynthia Nicole White, Kayla Ford +2

Sexual harassment in academia is often a hidden problem because victims are usually reluctant to report their experiences. Recently, a web survey was developed to provide an opport…

cs.IR2019

FLATM: A Fuzzy Logic Approach Topic Model for Medical Documents

Amir Karami, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Bin Zhou +1

One of the challenges for text analysis in medical domains is analyzing large-scale medical documents. As a consequence, finding relevant documents has become more difficult. One o…

cs.CL2019

Application of Fuzzy Clustering for Text Data Dimensionality Reduction

Amir Karami

Large textual corpora are often represented by the document-term frequency matrix whose elements are the frequency of terms; however, this matrix has two problems: sparsity and hig…

cs.CY2019★ 1 cited

Hidden in Plain Sight For Too Long: Using Text Mining Techniques to Shine a Light on Workplace Sexism and Sexual Harassment

Amir Karami, Suzanne C. Swan, Cynthia Nicole White +1

Objective: The goal of this study is to understand how people experience sexism and sexual harassment in the workplace by discovering themes in 2,362 experiences posted on the Ever…