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# Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP 2020 — accepted papers

Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP, held in Online, December 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 55 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Online · 🗓 December 2020

[**55** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcovid19/2020/#works) · [**1,092** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcovid19/2020/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2020-covidlies-detecting-covid-19-misinformation/)**Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Arjuna Ugarte et al.*208 citations · our summary*
2. **[CAiRE-COVID: A Question Answering and Query-focused Multi-Document Summarization System for COVID-19 Scholarly Information Management ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.14/)**Dan Su, Yan Xu, Tiezheng Yu et al.*88 citations*
3. **[Weibo-COV: A Large-Scale COVID-19 Social Media Dataset from Weibo ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.34/)**Yong Hu, Heyan Huang, Anfan Chen et al.*55 citations*
4. **[Answering Questions on COVID-19 in Real-Time ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.1/)**Jinhyuk Lee, Sean S. Yi, Minbyul Jeong et al.*47 citations*
5. **[TICO-19: the Translation Initiative for COvid-19](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anastasopoulos-2020-tico-19-translation-initiative-covid/)**Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alessandro Cattelan, Zi-Yi Dou et al.*46 citations · our summary*
6. **[Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.6/)**Charles Welch, Allison Lahnala, Veronica Perez-Rosas et al.*36 citations*
7. **[Content analysis of Persian/Farsi Tweets during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran using NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.26/)**Pedram Hosseini, Poorya Hosseini, David Broniatowski*29 citations*
8. **[Twitter Data Augmentation for Monitoring Public Opinion on COVID-19 Intervention Measures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.19/)**Lin Miao, Mark Last, Marina Litvak*23 citations*
9. **[Exploratory Analysis of COVID-19 Related Tweets in North America to Inform Public Health Institutes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.18/)**Hyeju Jang, Emily Rempel, Giuseppe Carenini et al.*21 citations*
10. **[Annotating the Pandemic: Named Entity Recognition and Normalisation in COVID-19 Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.27/)**Nico Colic, Lenz Furrer, Fabio Rinaldi*20 citations*

## All accepted papers (55)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2020-covidlies-detecting-covid-19-misinformation/)**Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Arjuna Ugarte et al.*208 citations · our summary*
2. **[CAiRE-COVID: A Question Answering and Query-focused Multi-Document Summarization System for COVID-19 Scholarly Information Management ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.14/)**Dan Su, Yan Xu, Tiezheng Yu et al.*88 citations*
3. **[Weibo-COV: A Large-Scale COVID-19 Social Media Dataset from Weibo ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.34/)**Yong Hu, Heyan Huang, Anfan Chen et al.*55 citations*
4. **[Answering Questions on COVID-19 in Real-Time ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.1/)**Jinhyuk Lee, Sean S. Yi, Minbyul Jeong et al.*47 citations*
5. **[TICO-19: the Translation Initiative for COvid-19](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anastasopoulos-2020-tico-19-translation-initiative-covid/)**Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alessandro Cattelan, Zi-Yi Dou et al.*46 citations · our summary*
6. **[Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.6/)**Charles Welch, Allison Lahnala, Veronica Perez-Rosas et al.*36 citations*
7. **[Content analysis of Persian/Farsi Tweets during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran using NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.26/)**Pedram Hosseini, Poorya Hosseini, David Broniatowski*29 citations*
8. **[Twitter Data Augmentation for Monitoring Public Opinion on COVID-19 Intervention Measures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.19/)**Lin Miao, Mark Last, Marina Litvak*23 citations*
9. **[Exploratory Analysis of COVID-19 Related Tweets in North America to Inform Public Health Institutes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.18/)**Hyeju Jang, Emily Rempel, Giuseppe Carenini et al.*21 citations*
10. **[Annotating the Pandemic: Named Entity Recognition and Normalisation in COVID-19 Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.27/)**Nico Colic, Lenz Furrer, Fabio Rinaldi*20 citations*
11. **[Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.8/)**Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran et al.*20 citations*
12. **[Public Sentiment on Governmental COVID-19 Measures in Dutch Social Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.17/)**Shihan Wang, Marijn Schraagen, Erik Tjong Kim Sang et al.*17 citations*
13. **[Tracking And Understanding Public Reaction During COVID-19: Saudi Arabia As A Use Case ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.24/)**Aseel Addawood, Alhanouf Alsuwailem, Ali Alohali et al.*17 citations*
14. **[Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.31/)**Adam Poliak, Max Fleming, Cash Costello et al.*16 citations*
15. **[A Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Model for Biomedical Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.16/)**Alexandre Bérard, Zae Myung Kim, Vassilina Nikoulina et al.*14 citations*
16. **[Hate and Toxic Speech Detection in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic using XAI: Ongoing Applied Research ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.36/)**David Hardage, Peyman Najafirad*14 citations*
17. **[Automatic Evaluation vs. User Preference in Neural Textual QuestionAnswering over COVID-19 Scientific Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.15/)**Arantxa Otegi, Jon Ander Campos, Gorka Azkune et al.*13 citations*
18. **[Characterizing drug mentions in COVID-19 Twitter Chatter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.25/)**Ramya Tekumalla, Juan M Banda*12 citations*
19. **[Explaining the Trump Gap in Social Distancing Using COVID Discourse ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.10/)**Austin van Loon, Sheridan Stewart, Brandon Waldon et al.*11 citations*
20. **[Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.7/)**Tom Tabak, Matthew Purver*11 citations*
21. **[Vapur: A Search Engine to Find Related Protein - Compound Pairs in COVID-19 Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.21/)**Abdullatif Köksal, Hilal Dönmez, Rıza Özçelik et al.*11 citations*
22. **[COVID-19 Surveillance through Twitter using Self-Supervised and Few Shot Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.9/)**Brandon Lwowski, Peyman Najafirad*9 citations*
23. **[A Comprehensive Dictionary and Term Variation Analysis for COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.32/)**Robert Leaman, Zhiyong Lu*7 citations*
24. **[Detecting Emerging Symptoms of COVID-19 using Context-based Twitter Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.35/)**Roshan Santosh, H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes Eichstaedt et al.*7 citations*
25. **[Developing a Curated Topic Model for COVID-19 Medical Research Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.30/)**Philip Resnik, Katherine E. Goodman, Mike Moran*7 citations*

[See all 55 papers in Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcovid19/2020/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[CORD-19: The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-cord-19-covid-19-open/) [Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcovid19/)**Lucy Lu Wang, Kyle Lo, Yoganand Chandrasekhar, et al.*2020 · 689 citations*
2. **[COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2020-covidlies-detecting-covid-19-misinformation/) [Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcovid19/)**Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Arjuna Ugarte, et al.*2020 · 270 citations*
3. **[TICO-19: the Translation Initiative for COvid-19](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anastasopoulos-2020-tico-19-translation-initiative-covid/) [Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at EMNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpcovid19/)**Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alessandro Cattelan, Zi-Yi Dou, et al.*2020 · 133 citations*

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## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Kyle Lo**1 work here · 689 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-lo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lucy Lu Wang**1 work here · 689 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucy-lu-wang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rodney Kinney**1 work here · 689 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-kinney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yannis Katsis**1 work here · 689 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yannis-katsis/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yunyao Li**1 work here · 689 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunyao-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Robert L. Logan IV**1 work here · 270 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-l-logan-iv/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sameer Singh**1 work here · 270 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sameer-singh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Antonios Anastasopoulos**1 work here · 133 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonios-anastasopoulos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christian Federmann**1 work here · 133 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-federmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dmitriy Genzel**1 work here · 133 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dmitriy-genzel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Francisco Guzman**1 work here · 133 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francisco-guzman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Junjie Hu**1 work here · 133 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junjie-hu/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**George Mason University** Fairfax · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/george-mason-university/) · [🎓**Georgetown University** Washington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgetown-university/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🔬**United States National Library of Medicine** Bethesda · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/united-states-national-library-of-medicine/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

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