BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:ԭ BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.377976.field_event_date.0@www.wright.edu DTSTAMP:20260220T000909Z CREATED:20191114T210421Z DESCRIPTION:Committee:  Drs. Tanvi Banerjee\, Co-Advisor\, William Romine\, Co-Advisor\, and Travis DoomABSTRACT:Educating people about vaccination t ends to target vaccine acceptance and reduction of hesitancy Social media provides a promising platform for studying public perception regarding vac cination. In this study\, we harvested tweets over a year related to vacci nes from February 2018 to January 2019. We present a two-stage classifier to: (1) classify the tweets as relevant or non-relevant and (2) categorize them in terms of pro-vaccination\, anti-vaccination\, or neutral outlook. We found that the classifier was able to distinguish clearly between anti -vaccination and pro-vaccination tweets\, but also misclassified many of t hese as neutral. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation\, we found that two top ics were sufficient to describe the corpus of tweets. These dealt with: (1 ) consequences of vaccination/non-vaccination\, and (2) promotion of vacci nation/non-vaccination. Finally\, using the NRC emotion lexicon\, we found practically significant differences in emotions expressed about vaccinati on between vaccine outlooks\, but no practically significant temporal diff erences across a year. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T120000 LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T125910Z LOCATION:304 Russ Engineering SUMMARY:Masters Thesis Defense “Analyzing Public View towards Vaccination u sing Twitter” By Rutuja Mahajan URL;TYPE=URI:/events/masters-thesis-defense-%E2%80%9C analyzing-public-view-towards-vaccination-using-twitter%E2%80%9D-rutuja END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR