Understanding the vaccine stance of Italian tweets and addressing language changes through the COVID-19 pandemic: Development and validation of a machine learning model

• Main Authors: Susan Cheatham (Author), Per E. Kummervold (Author), Lorenza Parisi (Author), Barbara Lanfranchi (Author), Ileana Croci (Author), Francesca Comunello (Author), Maria Cristina Rota (Author), Antonietta Filia (Author), Alberto Eugenio Tozzi (Author), Caterina Rizzo (Author), Francesco Gesualdo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Social media is increasingly being used to express opinions and attitudes toward vaccines. The vaccine stance of social media posts can be classified in almost real-time using machine learning. We describe the use of a Transformer-based machine learning model for analyzing vaccine stance of Italian...