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Empathy and Hope: Resource Transfer to Model Inter-country Social Media Dynamics

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12044v1
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 06:31:50 GMT
Title: Empathy and Hope: Resource Transfer to Model Inter-country Social Media Dynamics
Authors: Clay H. Yoo, Shriphani Palakodety, Rupak Sarkar, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh
Abstract summary: We focus on Pakistani Twitter users' response to the ongoing healthcare crisis in India. While #IndiaNeedsOxygen and #PakistanStandsWithIndia featured among the top-trending hashtags in Pakistan, divisive hashtags such as #EndiaSaySorryToKashmir simultaneously started trending. We demonstrate that existing emphNLP for social impact tools can be effectively harnessed for such tasks within a quick turnaround time.
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License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant ramifications for international relations ranging from travel restrictions, global ceasefires, and international vaccine production and sharing agreements. Amidst a wave of infections in India that resulted in a systemic breakdown of healthcare infrastructure, a social welfare organization based in Pakistan offered to procure medical-grade oxygen to assist India -- a nation which was involved in four wars with Pakistan in the past few decades. In this paper, we focus on Pakistani Twitter users' response to the ongoing healthcare crisis in India. While #IndiaNeedsOxygen and #PakistanStandsWithIndia featured among the top-trending hashtags in Pakistan, divisive hashtags such as #EndiaSaySorryToKashmir simultaneously started trending. Against the backdrop of a contentious history including four wars, divisive content of this nature, especially when a country is facing an unprecedented healthcare crisis, fuels further deterioration of relations. In this paper, we define a new task of detecting \emph{supportive} content and demonstrate that existing \emph{NLP for social impact} tools can be effectively harnessed for such tasks within a quick turnaround time. We also release the first publicly available data set at the intersection of geopolitical relations and a raging pandemic in the context of India and Pakistan.

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