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Asian Hate Speech Detection On Twitter During Covid-19, Amir Toliyat, Sarah Ita Levitan, Zeng Peng, Ronak Etemadpour
Asian Hate Speech Detection On Twitter During Covid-19, Amir Toliyat, Sarah Ita Levitan, Zeng Peng, Ronak Etemadpour
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, and after being utterly contagious in Asian countries, it rapidly spread to other countries. This disease caused governments worldwide to declare a public health crisis with severe measures taken to reduce the speed of the spread of the disease. This pandemic affected the lives of millions of people. Many citizens that lost their loved ones and jobs experienced a wide range of emotions, such as disbelief, shock, concerns about health, fear about food supplies, anxiety, and panic. All of the aforementioned phenomena led to the spread of racism and …