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Should we tweet this? Generative response modeling for predicting reception of public health messaging on Twitter

Sanders, Abraham; Ray-Majumder, Debjani; Erickson, John S.; Bennett, Kristin P. (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022-07-01)

The way people respond to messaging from public health organizations on social media can provide insight into public perceptions on critical health issues, especially during a global crisis such as COVID-19. It could be ...
Unmasking the conversation on masks: Natural language processing for topical sentiment analysis of COVID-19 Twitter discourse

Sanders, Abraham; White, R. C.; Severson, L. S.; Ma, R.; McQueen, R.; Alcântara Paulo, H. C.; Zhang, Y.; Erickson, John S.; Bennett, Kristin P. (AMIA, 2021-05)

In this exploratory study, we scrutinize a database of over one million tweets collected from March to July 2020 to illustrate public attitudes towards mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. We employ natural language ...