论文标题
社交媒体和共同-19：可以在不衡量人类运动的情况下量化社交距离吗？
Social Media and COVID-19: Can Social Distancing be Quantified without Measuring Human Movements?
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论文摘要
COVID-19爆发对国际健康和经济构成了重大威胁。在没有这种病毒治疗的情况下，公共卫生官员要求公众实践社会疏远以减少身体接触的数量。但是，量化社会距离是一项具有挑战性的任务，当前的方法基于人类的运动。我们提出了一种时间和成本效益的方法来衡量人们如何实践社会疏远。这项研究提出了一种基于利用主题标签的频率支持和鼓励社会距离来衡量社会疏远的新方法。我们已经确定了18个相关的主题标签，并在1月至2020年5月之间跟踪了它们的趋势。我们的评估结果表明，我们的发现与Google社交疏远报告之间存在很强的相关性（P <0.05）。
The COVID-19 outbreak has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. In the absence of treatment for this virus, public health officials asked the public to practice social distancing to reduce the number of physical contacts. However, quantifying social distancing is a challenging task and current methods are based on human movements. We propose a time and cost-effective approach to measure how people practice social distancing. This study proposes a new method based on utilizing the frequency of hashtags supporting and encouraging social distancing for measuring social distancing. We have identified 18 related hashtags and tracked their trends between Jan and May 2020. Our evaluation results show that there is a strong correlation (P<0.05) between our findings and the Google social distancing report.
