Real-time Classification, Geolocation and Interactive Visualization of COVID-19 Information Shared on Social Media to Better Understand Global Developments

Andrei Mircea


Abstract
As people communicate on social media during COVID-19, it can be an invaluable source of useful and up-to-date information. However, the large volume and noise-to-signal ratio of social media can make this impractical. We present a prototype dashboard for the real-time classification, geolocation and interactive visualization of COVID-19 tweets that addresses these issues. We also describe a novel L2 classification layer that outperforms linear layers on a dataset of respiratory virus tweets.
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2020.nlpcovid19-2.37
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
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December
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2020
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Online
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Karin Verspoor, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Michael Conway, Berry de Bruijn, Mark Dredze, Rada Mihalcea, Byron Wallace
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NLP-COVID19
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.37
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.37
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Andrei Mircea. 2020. Real-time Classification, Geolocation and Interactive Visualization of COVID-19 Information Shared on Social Media to Better Understand Global Developments. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Real-time Classification, Geolocation and Interactive Visualization of COVID-19 Information Shared on Social Media to Better Understand Global Developments (Mircea, NLP-COVID19 2020)
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Code
 mirandrom/crisistweetmap