2020/04/13 by Fatima Haouari, Haouari, Fatima, Maram Hasanain +5
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.3 #H.4 #I.2 #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #J.4 #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #cs.CL #cs.IR #cs.SI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.05861
This work was accepted at the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (EACL/WANLP 2021)
arxiv created 2021/03/13 · arxiv updated 2021/03/16
In this paper, we present ArCOV-19, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset that spans one year, covering the period from 27th of January 2020 till 31st of January 2021. ArCOV-19 is the first publicly-available Arabic Twitter dataset covering COVID-19 pandemic that includes about 2.7M tweets alongside the propagation networks of the most-popular subset of them (i.e., most-retweeted and -liked). The propagation networks include both retweets and conversational threads (i.e., threads of replies). ArCOV-19 is designed to enable research under several domains including natural language processing, information retrieval, and social computing. Preliminary analysis shows that ArCOV-19 captures rising discussions associated with the first reported cases of the disease as they appeared in the Arab world. In addition to the source tweets and propagation networks, we also release the search queries and language-independent crawler used to collect the tweets to encourage the curation of similar datasets.