(Mis)leading the COVID-19 vaccination discourse on Twitter: an exploratory study of infodemic around the pandemic

• Main Authors: Sharma, Shakshi, Sharma, Rajesh, Datta, Anwitaman
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; COVID-19; Explainable AI
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170558
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, we collect a moderate-sized representative corpus of tweets (over 200 000) pertaining to COVID-19 vaccination spanning for a period of seven months (September 2020–March 2021). Following a transfer learning approach, we utilize a pretrained transformer-based XLNet model to classify twe...