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COVID-19-related Nepali Tweets Classification in a Low Resource Setting

Rabin Adhikari, Safal Thapaliya, Nirajan Basnet, Samip Poudel, Aman Shakya, Bishesh Khanal
Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, Workshop & Shared Task · 2022
Identified eight COVID-19 discussion topics in Nepali-language Twitter. Built an automated pipeline to gather, classify, and visualize tweets in Nepali and Devanagari scripts. Compared mBERT and MuRIL for low-resource tweet classification — results showed MuRIL outperforms mBERT at larger data sizes. Data, models, and dashboard are open-sourced.
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