An analysis of COVID-19 knowledge graph construction and applications

D Flocco, B Palmer-Toy, R Wang, H Zhu… - … Conference on Big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
D Flocco, B Palmer-Toy, R Wang, H Zhu, R Sonthalia, J Lin, AL Bertozzi, PJ Brantingham
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2021ieeexplore.ieee.org
The construction and application of knowledge graphs have seen a rapid increase across
many disciplines in re-cent years. Additionally, the problem of uncovering relationships
between developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and social me-dia behavior is of great
interest to researchers hoping to curb the spread of the disease. In this paper we present a
knowledge graph constructed from COVID-19 related tweets in the Los Angeles area,
supplemented with federal and state policy announcements and disease spread statistics …
The construction and application of knowledge graphs have seen a rapid increase across many disciplines in re-cent years. Additionally, the problem of uncovering relationships between developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and social me-dia behavior is of great interest to researchers hoping to curb the spread of the disease. In this paper we present a knowledge graph constructed from COVID-19 related tweets in the Los Angeles area, supplemented with federal and state policy announcements and disease spread statistics. By incorporating dates, topics, and events as entities, we construct a knowledge graph that describes the connections between these useful information. We use natural language processing and change point analysis to extract tweet-topic, tweet-date, and event-date relations. Further analysis on the constructed knowledge graph provides insight into how tweets reflect public sentiments towards COVID-19 related topics and how changes in these sentiments correlate with real-world events.
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