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Analyzing European Migrant-related Twitter Deliberations

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Wolfgang NejdlAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '21: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021

Pages 166 - 170

https://doi.org/10.1145/3442442.3453459

Published: 03 June 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Machine-driven topic identification of online contents is a prevalent task in the natural language processing (NLP) domain. Social media deliberation reflects society's opinion, and a structured analysis of these contents allows us to decipher the same. We employ an NLP-based approach for investigating migration-related Twitter discussions. Besides traditional deep learning-based models, we have also considered pre-trained transformer-based models for analyzing our corpus. We have successfully classified multiple strands of public opinion related to European migrants. Finally, we use 'BertViz' to visually explore the interpretability of better performing transformer-based models.

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Khatua ANejdl W(2023)Why do we Hate Migrants?Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media10.1145/3603163.3609040(1-10)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603163.3609040
Khatua ANejdl W(2022)Endorsement Analysis of Migrant-related Deliberations on YouTube: Prior to and During 2022 Ukrainian crisisProceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks10.1145/3524010.3539499(31-38)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3524010.3539499

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WWW '21: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021

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DOI:10.1145/3442442

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Khatua ANejdl W(2023)Why do we Hate Migrants?Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media10.1145/3603163.3609040(1-10)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603163.3609040
Khatua ANejdl W(2022)Endorsement Analysis of Migrant-related Deliberations on YouTube: Prior to and During 2022 Ukrainian crisisProceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks10.1145/3524010.3539499(31-38)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3524010.3539499

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