TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Autoren

  • Dimitar Dimitrov
  • Erdal Baran
  • Pavlos Fafalios
  • Ran Yu
  • Xiaofei Zhu
  • Matthäus Zloch
  • Stefan Dietze

Organisationseinheiten

Externe Organisationen

  • GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
  • Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
  • Chongqing University of Technology
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksCIKM 2020
UntertitelProceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Seiten2991-2998
Seitenumfang8
ISBN (elektronisch)978-1-4503-6859-9
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 19 Okt. 2020
Veranstaltung29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - online, Virtual, Online, Irland
Dauer: 19 Okt. 202023 Okt. 2020

Abstract

Publicly available social media archives facilitate research in the social sciences and provide corpora for training and testing a wide range of machine learning and natural language processing methods. With respect to the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), online discourse on Twitter reflects public opinion and perception related to the pandemic itself as well as mitigating measures and their societal impact. Understanding such discourse, its evolution, and interdependencies with real-world events or (mis)information can foster valuable insights. On the other hand, such corpora are crucial facilitators for computational methods addressing tasks such as sentiment analysis, event detection, or entity recognition. However, obtaining, archiving, and semantically annotating large amounts of tweets is costly. In this paper, we describe TweetsCOV19, a publicly available knowledge base of currently more than 8 million tweets, spanning October 2019 - April 2020. Metadata about the tweets as well as extracted entities, hashtags, user mentions, sentiments, and URLs are exposed using established RDF/S vocabularies, providing an unprecedented knowledge base for a range of knowledge discovery tasks. Next to a description of the dataset and its extraction and annotation process, we present an initial analysis and use cases of the corpus.

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TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic. / Dimitrov, Dimitar; Baran, Erdal; Fafalios, Pavlos et al.
CIKM 2020: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. S. 2991-2998.

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Dimitrov, D, Baran, E, Fafalios, P, Yu, R, Zhu, X, Zloch, M & Dietze, S 2020, TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic. in CIKM 2020: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), S. 2991-2998, 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual, Online, Irland, 19 Okt. 2020. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2006.14492, https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3412765
Dimitrov, D., Baran, E., Fafalios, P., Yu, R., Zhu, X., Zloch, M., & Dietze, S. (2020). TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic. In CIKM 2020: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (S. 2991-2998). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2006.14492, https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3412765
Dimitrov D, Baran E, Fafalios P, Yu R, Zhu X, Zloch M et al. TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic. in CIKM 2020: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. S. 2991-2998 doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2006.14492, 10.1145/3340531.3412765
Dimitrov, Dimitar ; Baran, Erdal ; Fafalios, Pavlos et al. / TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic. CIKM 2020: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. S. 2991-2998
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