Measuring Shifts in Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Measures in Belgium Using Multilingual BERT

Blog post » · paper »

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).

chart.png

Models used in this paper are on HuggingFace:

Downloads last month
29
Inference Examples
This model does not have enough activity to be deployed to Inference API (serverless) yet. Increase its social visibility and check back later, or deploy to Inference Endpoints (dedicated) instead.