Identifying COVID-19 cases and extracting patient reported symptoms from Reddit using natural language processing - Scientific Reports

Researchers have developed a natural language processing (NLP) model to identify COVID-19 positive cases and extract symptoms from Reddit posts, providing an automated and efficient method for understanding the disease. The model achieved high accuracy in identifying positive cases and extracted symptoms that were consistent with previous studies. The findings highlight the potential of NLP in analyzing social media data for public health surveillance.

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