TY - GEN
T1 - Correlation Analysis of Spatio-temporal Arabic COVID-19 Tweets
AU - Elsaka, Tarek
AU - Afyouni, Imad
AU - Hashem, Ibrahim
AU - Al Aghbari, Zaher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/11/2
Y1 - 2021/11/2
N2 - Since the recent COVID-19 outbreak, several researchers have begun to focus on various difficulties to data mining of social data to study people's reactions to the outbreak. Recent approaches have mostly concentrated on the analysis of social data in the English language. In this study, we present an in-depth social data mining approach to extract Spatio-temporal and semantic insights about the COVID-19 pandemic from the Arabic social data. We developed sentiment-based categorization methods to extract major topics at various location granularities (regions/cities). Besides, we used topic abstraction levels (subtopics and main topics). A correlation-based analysis of Arabic tweets and official health provider data will also be presented. Furthermore, we used occurrence-based and statistical correlation methodologies to create many topic-based analysis mechanisms. Our findings demonstrate a positive association between top subjects (for example, lockdown and vaccine) and the increasing number of COVID-19 new cases, but unfavorable attitudes among Arab Twitter users were generally heightened during this pandemic, on issues such as lockdown, closure, and law enforcement.
AB - Since the recent COVID-19 outbreak, several researchers have begun to focus on various difficulties to data mining of social data to study people's reactions to the outbreak. Recent approaches have mostly concentrated on the analysis of social data in the English language. In this study, we present an in-depth social data mining approach to extract Spatio-temporal and semantic insights about the COVID-19 pandemic from the Arabic social data. We developed sentiment-based categorization methods to extract major topics at various location granularities (regions/cities). Besides, we used topic abstraction levels (subtopics and main topics). A correlation-based analysis of Arabic tweets and official health provider data will also be presented. Furthermore, we used occurrence-based and statistical correlation methodologies to create many topic-based analysis mechanisms. Our findings demonstrate a positive association between top subjects (for example, lockdown and vaccine) and the increasing number of COVID-19 new cases, but unfavorable attitudes among Arab Twitter users were generally heightened during this pandemic, on issues such as lockdown, closure, and law enforcement.
KW - Arabic Tweets
KW - Correlation Analysis
KW - COVID-19 Pandemic
KW - Sentiment Analysis
KW - Spatio-temporal
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U2 - 10.1145/3486633.3491092
DO - 10.1145/3486633.3491092
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119821493
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology, SpatialEpi 2021
SP - 14
EP - 17
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology, SpatialEpi 2021
A2 - Anderson, Taylor
A2 - Yu, Jia
A2 - Roess, Amira
A2 - Kavak, Hamdi
A2 - Kim, Joon-Seok
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology, SpatialEpi 2021
Y2 - 2 November 2021
ER -