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Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media (2024)
Journal Article
Dhiman, A., Yom-Tov, E., Pellis, L., Edelstein, M., Pebody, R., Hayward, A., House, T., Finnie, T., Guzman, D., Lampos, V., Virus Watch Consortium, & Cox, I. J. (2024). Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media. npj Digital Medicine, 7(1), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01160-2

We propose a method to estimate the household secondary attack rate (hSAR) of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom based on activity on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conventional methods of hSAR estimation are resource intensive,... Read More about Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media.

AI-based Twitter framework for assessing the involvement of government schemes in electoral campaigns (2022)
Journal Article
Dhiman, A., & Toshniwal, D. (2022). AI-based Twitter framework for assessing the involvement of government schemes in electoral campaigns. Expert Systems with Applications, 203, Article 117338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117338

The government schemes (also known as programs and plans) or social welfare policies can be defined as the set of assistance and aids provided by the country's governance body. These schemes focus on the improved well-being of needful citizens. Some... Read More about AI-based Twitter framework for assessing the involvement of government schemes in electoral campaigns.

An Approximate Model for Event Detection from Twitter Data (2020)
Journal Article
Dhiman, A., & Toshniwal, D. (2020). An Approximate Model for Event Detection from Twitter Data. IEEE Access, 8, 122168-122184. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007004

The abundance and real-time availability of Twitter data have proved beneficial in detecting events in various domains such as emergency situations, crime detection, public health, place recommendations, etc. Nevertheless, two critical challenges occ... Read More about An Approximate Model for Event Detection from Twitter Data.