Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset
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| author | Ahmad, Ibrahim Said Aliyu, Lukman Jibril Khalid, Abubakar Auwal Aliyu, Saminu Muhammad Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan Abdulmumin, Idris Abduljalil, Bala Mairiga Bello, Bello Shehu Abubakar, Amina Imam |
| author_facet | Ahmad, Ibrahim Said Aliyu, Lukman Jibril Khalid, Abubakar Auwal Aliyu, Saminu Muhammad Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan Abdulmumin, Idris Abduljalil, Bala Mairiga Bello, Bello Shehu Abubakar, Amina Imam |
| contents | Numerous successes have been achieved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, initially using various precautionary measures like lockdowns, social distancing, and the use of face masks. More recently, various vaccinations have been developed to aid in the prevention or reduction of the severity of the COVID-19 infection. Despite the effectiveness of the precautionary measures and the vaccines, there are several controversies that are massively shared on social media platforms like Twitter. In this paper, we explore the use of state-of-the-art transformer-based language models to study people's acceptance of vaccines in Nigeria. We developed a novel dataset by crawling multi-lingual tweets using relevant hashtags and keywords. Our analysis and visualizations revealed that most tweets expressed neutral sentiments about COVID-19 vaccines, with some individuals expressing positive views, and there was no strong preference for specific vaccine types, although Moderna received slightly more positive sentiment. We also found out that fine-tuning a pre-trained LLM with an appropriate dataset can yield competitive results, even if the LLM was not initially pre-trained on the specific language of that dataset. |
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| spellingShingle | Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset Ahmad, Ibrahim Said Aliyu, Lukman Jibril Khalid, Abubakar Auwal Aliyu, Saminu Muhammad Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan Abdulmumin, Idris Abduljalil, Bala Mairiga Bello, Bello Shehu Abubakar, Amina Imam Computation and Language Social and Information Networks Numerous successes have been achieved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, initially using various precautionary measures like lockdowns, social distancing, and the use of face masks. More recently, various vaccinations have been developed to aid in the prevention or reduction of the severity of the COVID-19 infection. Despite the effectiveness of the precautionary measures and the vaccines, there are several controversies that are massively shared on social media platforms like Twitter. In this paper, we explore the use of state-of-the-art transformer-based language models to study people's acceptance of vaccines in Nigeria. We developed a novel dataset by crawling multi-lingual tweets using relevant hashtags and keywords. Our analysis and visualizations revealed that most tweets expressed neutral sentiments about COVID-19 vaccines, with some individuals expressing positive views, and there was no strong preference for specific vaccine types, although Moderna received slightly more positive sentiment. We also found out that fine-tuning a pre-trained LLM with an appropriate dataset can yield competitive results, even if the LLM was not initially pre-trained on the specific language of that dataset. |
| title | Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset |
| topic | Computation and Language Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13133 |