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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CIKM 2020 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 2991-2998 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-4503-6859-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Oct 2020 |
| Event | 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2020 - online, Virtual, Online, Ireland Duration: 19 Oct 2020 → 23 Oct 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.
Keywords
- coronavirus, covid-19, entity linking, rdf, sentiment analysis, social media archives, twitter
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CIKM 2020: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 2991-2998.
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AU - Dimitrov, Dimitar
AU - Baran, Erdal
AU - Fafalios, Pavlos
AU - Yu, Ran
AU - Zhu, Xiaofei
AU - Zloch, Matthäus
AU - Dietze, Stefan
PY - 2020/10/19
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