Publications


  • Characterizing Anti-Asian Rhetoric During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sentiment Analysis Case Study on Twitter Article

Ramya Tekumalla, Zia Baig, Michelle Pan, Luis Alberto Robles Hernandez, Michael Wang, Juan Banda ;
Workshop Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2022
  • An Enhanced Approach to Identify and Extract Medication Mentions in Tweets via Weak Supervision Article Poster Video

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; Proceedings of the BioCreative VII Challenge Evaluation Workshop 2021
  • Using weak supervision to generate training datasets from social media data: a proof of concept to identify drug mentions Article

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; Journal of Neural Computing and Applications 2021
  • A large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset for open scientific research - an international collaboration Article Dataset Github

Juan M Banda, Ramya Tekumalla, Guanyu Wang, Jingyuan Yu, Tuo Liu, Yuning Ding, Katya Artwmova, Elena Tutubalina and Gerardo Chowell; Journal of Epidemiologia 2021
  • Mining Archive. org’s Twitter Stream Grab for Pharmacovigilance Research Gold Article Dataset Github

Ramya Tekumalla, Javad Rafiei and Juan M Banda ; Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), (Acceptance: 16%), Presented at ICWSM 2020
  • Characterizing drug mentions in COVID-19 Twitter Chatter Article

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; Journal of Genomics and Informatics 2020
  • A large-scale Twitter dataset for drug safety applications mined from publicly existing resources Article Dataset

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; Accepted as Workshop paper at ACM-CHIL 2020

Posters

  • Using Weak Supervision to Identify Drug Mentions from Class Imbalanced Twitter Data Poster

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda; ICML 2021
  • Using weak supervision to generate training datasets from social media data: a proof of concept to identify drug mentions Poster

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda; NeurIPS 2020
  • Characterizing drug mentions in COVID-19 Twitter Chatter Poster

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda; EMNLP 2020
  • Characterization of Potential Drug Treatments for COVID-19 using Social Media data and Machine Learning Poster Video

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; ICML 2020
  • Leveraging the OHDSI vocabulary to characterize the COVID-19 epidemic using Twitter data and NLP Slides

Ramya Tekumalla and Juan M Banda ; OHDSI 2020

Hackathons and Workshops

Lumiata Hackathon, April 2020
  • Identify trends in drug chatter in Twitter Covid-19 data Github

Covid19 Biohackathon April 2020Third Place, BioNlp-OST, May 2019
  • Presented a "Web Programming" workshop @ HackGSU 2018, 2019