ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks

Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed


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.
Anthology ID:
2021.wanlp-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
Month:
April
Year:
2021
Address:
Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual)
Editors:
Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Hazem Hajj, Walid Magdy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Fethi Bougares, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Samia Touileb
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WANLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
82–91
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.9
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Cite (ACL):
Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, and Tamer Elsayed. 2021. ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 82–91, Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks (Haouari et al., WANLP 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.9.pdf
Code
 bigirqu/ArCOV-19
Data
ArCOV-19