A Dashboard for Mitigating the COVID-19 Misinfodemic

Zhengyuan Zhu, Kevin Meng, Josue Caraballo, Israa Jaradat, Xiao Shi, Zeyu Zhang, Farahnaz Akrami, Haojin Liao, Fatma Arslan, Damian Jimenez, Mohanmmed Samiul Saeef, Paras Pathak, Chengkai Li


Abstract
This paper describes the current milestones achieved in our ongoing project that aims to understand the surveillance of, impact of and intervention on COVID-19 misinfodemic on Twitter. Specifically, it introduces a public dashboard which, in addition to displaying case counts in an interactive map and a navigational panel, also provides some unique features not found in other places. Particularly, the dashboard uses a curated catalog of COVID-19 related facts and debunks of misinformation, and it displays the most prevalent information from the catalog among Twitter users in user-selected U.S. geographic regions. The paper explains how to use BERT models to match tweets with the facts and misinformation and to detect their stance towards such information. The paper also discusses the results of preliminary experiments on analyzing the spatio-temporal spread of misinformation.
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2021.eacl-demos.12
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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April
Year:
2021
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Online
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Dimitra Gkatzia, Djamé Seddah
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
99–105
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-demos.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-demos.12
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Zhengyuan Zhu, Kevin Meng, Josue Caraballo, Israa Jaradat, Xiao Shi, Zeyu Zhang, Farahnaz Akrami, Haojin Liao, Fatma Arslan, Damian Jimenez, Mohanmmed Samiul Saeef, Paras Pathak, and Chengkai Li. 2021. A Dashboard for Mitigating the COVID-19 Misinfodemic. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 99–105, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Dashboard for Mitigating the COVID-19 Misinfodemic (Zhu et al., EACL 2021)
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