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Rabindra Lamsal

First Name
Rabindra
Last Name
Lamsal
Affiliation
School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne
Job Title
Ph.D. Candidate
Expertise
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Social Computing
Short Bio
I'm a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne.

I completed my BE in Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Kathmandu University (2012-16), and M.Tech from the School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2017-19). I was also associated with the Special Centre for Disaster Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, as a Project associate from 2018-19.

My areas of research interest are Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Social Computing.

Open Access Entries from this Author

This dataset gives a cursory glimpse at the overall sentiment trend of the public discourse regarding the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. The live scatter plot of this dataset is available as The Overall Trend block at https://live.rlamsal.com.np. The trend graph reveals multiple peaks and drops that need further analysis. The n-grams during those peaks and drops can prove beneficial for better understanding the discourse.

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This dataset (GeoCOV19Tweets) contains IDs and sentiment scores of geo-tagged tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The real-time Twitter feed is monitored for coronavirus-related tweets using 90+ different keywords and hashtags that are commonly used while referencing the pandemic. Complying with Twitter's content redistribution policy, only the tweet IDs are shared. The tweet IDs in this dataset belong to the tweets created providing an exact location.

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Considering the ongoing works in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with the Nepali language, it is evident that the use of Artificial Intelligence and NLP on this Devanagari script has still a long way to go. The Nepali language is complex in itself and requires multi-dimensional approaches for pre-processing the unstructured text and training the machines to comprehend the language competently. There seemed a need for a comprehensive Nepali language text corpus containing texts from domains such as News, Finance, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Literature, Technology.

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This dataset (COV19Tweets) includes CSV files that contain IDs and sentiment scores of the tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The real-time Twitter feed is monitored for coronavirus-related tweets using 90+ different keywords and hashtags that are commonly used while referencing the pandemic. The oldest tweets in this dataset date back to October 01, 2019. This dataset has been wholly re-designed on March 20, 2020, to comply with the content redistribution policy set by Twitter.

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Dataset Entries from this Author