Using Machine Learning to Track the Impact of the Pandemic on… – AlKhaleej Today

Dealing with a global pandemic has affected the mental health of millions of people. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard University have shown that they can measure these effects by analyzing the language people use to express their fear online. Using machine learning to analyze the text of more than 800,000 Reddit posts, the researchers were able to identify changes in the tone and content of the language used as the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic from January to April 2020. Their analysis…

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