#Walangpasok on Twitter: Natural language processing as a method for analyzing tweets on class suspensions in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Ancheta, Jeffrey Rosario, Gorro, Ken D., Uy, Mark Anthony D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Natural language processing (Computer science); Microblogs; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Computer Sciences; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/424; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/1423/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this study, we aim to prove that natural language processing (NLP) can be used as a method for analyzing qualitative data like tweets. To validate this, we examine various topics emerging from tweets about class suspensions in the Philippines using #walangpasok (no classes). By utilizing three NL...