Sifting French Tweets to Investigate the Impact of Covid-19 in Triggering Intense Anxiety

Mohamed Amine Romdhane, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata


Abstract
Sifting French Tweets to Investigate the Impact of Covid-19 in Triggering Intense Anxiety. Social media can be leveraged to understand public sentiment and feelings in real-time, and target public health messages based on user interests and emotions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in triggering intense anxiety, relying on messages exchanged on Twitter. More specifically, we provide : i) a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of tweets in French related to coronavirus, and ii) a pipeline approach (a filtering mechanism followed by Neural Network methods) to satisfactory classify messages expressing intense anxiety on social media, considering the role played by emotions.
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2021.jeptalnrecital-taln.21
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Actes de la 28e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 1 : conférence principale
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6
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2021
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Lille, France
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Pascal Denis, Natalia Grabar, Amel Fraisse, Rémi Cardon, Bernard Jacquemin, Eric Kergosien, Antonio Balvet
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JEP/TALN/RECITAL
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ATALA
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219–226
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.jeptalnrecital-taln.21
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Mohamed Amine Romdhane, Elena Cabrio, and Serena Villata. 2021. Sifting French Tweets to Investigate the Impact of Covid-19 in Triggering Intense Anxiety. In Actes de la 28e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 1 : conférence principale, pages 219–226, Lille, France. ATALA.
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Sifting French Tweets to Investigate the Impact of Covid-19 in Triggering Intense Anxiety (Amine Romdhane et al., JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2021)
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