Papers by Anh Mac
Event Detection from Social Media for Epidemic Prediction (2024.naacl-long)
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Tanmay Parekh, Anh Mac, Jiarui Yu, Yuxuan Dong, Syed Shahriar, Bonnie Liu, Eric Yang, Kuan-Hao Huang, Wei Wang, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang
| Challenge: | Social media is an easy-to-access platform providing timely updates about societal trends and events. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to extract epidemic-related events from social media posts to provide early warnings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can detect epidemic events for three unseen epidemics of Monkeypox, Zika, and Dengue while existing models fail miserably. |