metadata
language: multilingual
tags:
- Dutch
- French
- English
- Tweets
- Topic classification
widget:
- text: >-
I really can't wait for this lockdown to be over and go back to waking up
early.
Measuring Shifts in Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Measures in Belgium Using Multilingual BERT
We categorized several months worth of these Tweets by topic (government COVID measure) and opinion expressed. Below is a timeline of the relative number of Tweets on the curfew topic (middle) and the fraction of those Tweets that find the curfew too strict, too loose, or a suitable measure (bottom), with the number of daily cases in Belgium to give context on the pandemic situation (top).
Models used in this paper are on HuggingFace: