Background Vaccine hesitancy continues to limit global efforts in combatting the COVID-19
pandemic. Emerging research demonstrates the role of social media in disseminating …

Stance detection is an evolving opinion mining research area motivated by the vast increase
in the variety and volume of user-generated content. In this regard, considerable research …

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language
processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify …

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide, an unprecedented amount of
open data is being generated for medical, genetics, and epidemiological research. The …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a large, initially uncontrollable, public
health crisis both in the United States and across the world, with experts looking to vaccines …

In recent decades, the world has witnessed a great expansion in the world of technology
and electronics, in addition to the tremendous development in various industries, which has …

On Twitter, COVID-19 is a highly discussed topic. People worldwide have used Twitter to
express their viewpoints and feelings during the pandemic. Previous research has focused …

Today, administering COVID-19 vaccines at a societal scale has been deemed as the most
appropriate way to defend against the COVID-19 pandemic. This global vaccination drive …

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most devastating public health crisis in at least a century and
has affected the lives of billions of people worldwide in unprecedented ways. Compared to …

Social media platforms play an essential role in crisis communication, but analysing crisis-
related social media texts is challenging due to their informal nature. Transformer-based pre …