Publications by authors named "Vijaya K Yeruva"

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was a "wake up" call for public health agencies. Often, these agencies are ill-prepared to communicate with target audiences clearly and effectively for community-level activations and safety operations. The obstacle is a lack of data-driven approaches to obtaining insights from local community stakeholders.

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An alarming proportion of the US population is overweight. Obesity increases the risk of illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose the Contextual Word Embeddings (ContWEB) framework that aims to build contextual word embeddings on the relationship between obesity and healthy eating from the crowd domain (Twitter) and the expert domain (PubMed).

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