readme: ---
  language: 
  - multilingual
  - nl
  - fr
  - en
  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
  [Blog post »](https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~pieter.delobelle/attitudes-towards-covid-19-measures/?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=corona_tweets)   · [paper »](http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09947)
  
  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](https://github.com/iPieter/bert-corona-tweets/raw/master/chart.png)
  
  
  Models used in this paper are on HuggingFace:  
  - https://huggingface.co/DTAI-KULeuven/mbert-corona-tweets-belgium-curfew-support  
  - https://huggingface.co/DTAI-KULeuven/mbert-corona-tweets-belgium-topics  
  