Forecasting COVID-19 caseloads using unsupervised embedding clusters of social media posts

We present a novel approach incorporating transformer-based language models into infectious disease modelling. Text-derived features are quantified by tracking high-density clusters of sentence-level representations of Reddit posts within specific US states’ COVID-19 subreddits. We benchmark these c...

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Auteurs principaux: Drinkall, F, Zohren, S, Pierrehumbert, JB
Format: Conference item
Langue:English
Publié: Association for Computational Linguistics 2022