Title
Discovery of COVID-19 Symptomatic Experience Reported by Twitter Users.
Abstract
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients shared their personal experiences of the viral infection on social media. Gathering their symptomatic experiences reported on Twitter may help better understand the infectious disease and supplement our knowledge of the disease gathered by healthcare workers. In this study, we identified personal experience tweets related to COVID-19 infection using a pre-trained and fine-tuned language model, and annotated the machine-identified tweets in order to extract the information of infection status, symptom concepts, and the days the symptomatic experience occurred. Our result shows that the top 10 most common symptoms mentioned in the collected Twitter data are in line with those published by WHO and CDC. The symptoms along with the day information appear to provide additional insight on how the infection progresses in infected individuals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3233/SHTI220552
Medical Informatics Europe (MIE)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
COVID-19 symptoms,Novel coronavirus,Transformer-based language model,Twitter data,personal health experience
Conference
294
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1879-8365
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keyuan Jiang100.34
Minghao Zhu200.34
Gordon R Bernard300.34