Monitoring and Analysing Social Networks Topics in the Mena Region (MARSAD)
MARSAD will be a live social media observatory to visualize and analyze live social media data in the MENA region. The tool will allow the users (individuals and institutions) to get a snapshot of the current and historical trending topics and the sentiments and emotions related to the chosen topics. MARSAD will support and recognize the various Arabic dialects, and it will provide the possibility to archive the topics to allow researchers easy access to historical public datasets. The insights and the topics generated by MARSAD would allow us to do related qualitative analysis, focus groups, and online ethnographies to help the community better understand the current online discourse in the region and beyond. We will also look at Qatar’s cyberspace’s gendered and generational dynamics and give special attention to marginalized groups.
Objectives
To create a large and balanced annotated dataset from social media streams covering multiple Arabic dialects and regions.
To create MARSAD’s AI and real-time Social Media Monitoring Platform.
To define the application and integration scenarios of the MARSAD Platform. We will design for the local institutions and end-users to help them benefit from the MARSAD platform.
To scope, examine, and analyse gendered and generational dynamics in the digital public sphere in Qatar, paying particular attention to the experiences and actions of marginalized groups online.
Meet MARSAD Team members...
WAJDI ZAGHOUANI
Marsad
FIROJ ALAM
MARC OWEN JONES
ZUBAIR SHAH
YOUNSS AIT MOU
DALIA MOSTAFA
AMAL AL MALKI
MD. RAFIUL BISWAS
Publications
Creating a Multilingual Dataset in Arabic and Croatian from Sports Videos through a Data Processing Pipeline Combining ASR and MT Proceedings Article
In: 2024.
Multi-dimensional insights: Annotated dataset of stance, sentiment, and emotion in Facebook comments on Tunisia’s July 25 measures Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, co-located with the 2024 International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024.
Analyzing conflict through data: A dataset on the digital framing of Sheikh Jarrah evictions Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, co-located with the 2024 International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024.
Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! lab task 1 on check-worthiness in multimodal and multigenre content Journal Article
In: Working Notes of CLEF, 2023.
Overview of the CLEF–2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source Proceedings Article
In: International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, pp. 251–275, 2023.
Can ChatGPT be Your Personal Medical Assistant? Proceedings Article
In: 2023 Tenth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), pp. 1–5, 2023.
Potentials of ChatGPT for Annotating Vaccine Related Tweets Proceedings Article
In: 2023 Tenth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), pp. 1–6, 2023.
Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Task 2 on Subjectivity in News Articles Proceedings Article
In: 24th Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, pp. 236–249, 2023.
Araieval shared task: Persuasion techniques and disinformation detection in arabic text Journal Article
In: ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2311.03179, 2023.
Pushing Boundaries: Exploring Zero Shot Object Classification with Large Multimodal Models Proceedings Article
In: 2023 Tenth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), pp. 1–5, 2023.
MARSAD Observatory: Monitoring and Analyzing Social Networks Topics in the MENA Region Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 8th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, CEUR Proceedings, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2023.
Social Media Analysis of Public Reactions to the Israel-Gaza War: Insights from Facebook and Instagram Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 8th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, CEUR Proceedings, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2023.
Corpus Analysis of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19)-Related Loneliness in Twitter Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, 0000.
Resources
Tools
To be added once ready
Datasets
To be added once ready…