@inproceedings{haouari-etal-2021-arcov,
    title = "{A}r{COV}-19: The First {A}rabic {COVID}-19 {T}witter Dataset with Propagation Networks",
    author = "Haouari, Fatima  and
      Hasanain, Maram  and
      Suwaileh, Reem  and
      Elsayed, Tamer",
    editor = "Habash, Nizar  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      Hajj, Hazem  and
      Magdy, Walid  and
      Zaghouani, Wajdi  and
      Bougares, Fethi  and
      Tomeh, Nadi  and
      Abu Farha, Ibrahim  and
      Touileb, Samia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/2021.wanlp-1.9/",
    pages = "82--91",
    abstract = "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 retweetsand 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 the propagation networks, we also release the search queries and the language-independent crawler used to collect the tweets to encourage the curation of similar datasets."
}