”Vaccin är ett fult o lömskt ord för att kunna lura friska människor till att injicera sjukdomar och död.” Vaccinskepsis Redan år 2019 listade Världshälsoorganisationen vaccintvekan som ett av de tio största hoten mot global hälsa. Trots att vaccinationer bevisligen är en av de viktigaste insatserna för folkhälsan, skapar vaccintvekan och vaccinmotstånd allvarliga bekymmer för en betydande del av befolkningen i många länder, inklusive Sverige. Vaccinoro, såsom den kommer till uttryck i sociala medier – där vacciners bristande säkerhet och effektivitet, samt …
A Swedish COVID-19 (sv-COVID-19) corpus and its exploration … smorgasbord
As the COVID-19 virus became a pandemic in March 2020, the amount of (time-stamped written) data, such as news/newspaper reports, scientific articles, social media posts (e.g. blogs and twitter), surveys and other information about the virus and its symptoms, prevention, management and transmission became massively available. Such data contained both valid and reliable information, and relevant facts from trusted sources and also rumors, conspiracy theories and misinformation from unofficial ones. However, it was not only the amount of (written) data and information …
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The Gothenburg H70 birth cohort studies and the digital assessment of neuropsychological tests
A comment often received by the reviewers of manuscripts to scientific conferences and journals is one about the representative sample under scrutiny and whether there are any solid arguments for accepting that the population characteristics, and particularly the features extracted from the empirical data acquired from such a population (e.g. from speech production) provide sufficient or accurate enough information to use in various algorithmic approaches (e.g. in machine learning). State-of-the-art studies on computational methods to identify signs of cognitive deterioration in language …