TY - GEN
T1 - Cross-Textual Analysis of COVID-19 Tweets
T2 - 6th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2021
AU - Imperial, Joseph Marvin
AU - De La Cruz, Angelica
AU - Malaay, Emmanuel
AU - Roxas, Rachel Edita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2022/9/30
Y1 - 2022/9/30
N2 - In the context of worldwide events such as natural calamities and pandemics, understanding the sentiments of the people, in general, can pave way for intervention initiatives in public health, service, and security. Likewise, Twitter provides a platform where people can publicly share their thoughts and sentiments in the form of tweets. In this paper, we realize the importance of public data found on Twitter and focus on understanding how Filipinos react as the timeline of events occur in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. We perform analyses in two main aspects: identification of prominent themes and its trend of usage over time. Results show that Filipinos (a) express positive emotions such as love, hope, and longing, (b) raise concerns over health and testing, and (c) share their experience as main themes of discussion on Twitter. Cross-referencing our results with previous work dealing with thematic analysis on other natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons shows that the positive and hopeful mindset is consistent amongst Filipinos.
AB - In the context of worldwide events such as natural calamities and pandemics, understanding the sentiments of the people, in general, can pave way for intervention initiatives in public health, service, and security. Likewise, Twitter provides a platform where people can publicly share their thoughts and sentiments in the form of tweets. In this paper, we realize the importance of public data found on Twitter and focus on understanding how Filipinos react as the timeline of events occur in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. We perform analyses in two main aspects: identification of prominent themes and its trend of usage over time. Results show that Filipinos (a) express positive emotions such as love, hope, and longing, (b) raise concerns over health and testing, and (c) share their experience as main themes of discussion on Twitter. Cross-referencing our results with previous work dealing with thematic analysis on other natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons shows that the positive and hopeful mindset is consistent amongst Filipinos.
KW - Covid
KW - Philippines
KW - Themes
KW - Time
KW - Tweets
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116056699&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-2380-6_71
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-2380-6_71
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85116056699
SN - 9789811623790
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 813
EP - 821
BT - Proceedings of 6th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2021
A2 - Yang, Xin-She
A2 - Sherratt, Simon
A2 - Dey, Nilanjan
A2 - Joshi, Amit
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 25 February 2021 through 26 February 2021
ER -
