Enhancing COVID-19 Epidemic Forecasting Accuracy by Combining Real-time and Historical Data From Multiple Internet-Based Sources: Analysis of Social Media Data, Online News Articles, and Search Queries

Jingwei Li   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Wei Huang   ^{3, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Choon Ling Sia   ¹ , PhD ;   Zhuo Chen   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Tailai Wu   ⁸ , PhD ;   Qingnan Wang   ² , PhD

¹ Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong , China

² School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University , Xi'an, China

³ College of Business, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

⁴ National Center for Applied Mathematics Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

⁵ Department of Information Systems and Intelligent Business, School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

⁶ College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

⁷ School of Economics, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China

⁸ School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China