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A project focused on extracting the public opinions of North Houston Highway Improvement Project (IH-45) from Twitter

• Copyright (C) 2022 The University of Texas at Arlington
• Copyright (C) 2022 HBE: The Humanized Built Environment, (https://hubilab.uta.edu/)
• Copyright (C) 2022 Alireza Shamshiri, Kyeong Rok Ryu, Steven McCullough, and June Young Park

• Alireza Shamshiri, Kyeong Rok Ryu, Steven McCullough, and June Young Park. 2022. ConStory: Automatic story investigator of public perception on the mega urban infrastructure project: poster abstract. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 293–294.https://doi.org/10.1145/3563357.3567751

• 4103 Scrapped Tweets from Twitter
• Text preprocessing has been done using Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)

• Topic Modeling Performed Using Gibbs sampling algorithm for a Dirichlet Mixture Model (https://github.com/rwalk/gsdmm)

• Topic Weights = Number of topics assigned to each tweet / Each year tweets contain that topic

If you liked our paper, please consider citing it

@inproceedings{shamshiri2022constory,title={ConStory: Automatic story investigator of public perception on the mega urban infrastructure project},author={Shamshiri, Alireza and Ryu, Kyeong Rok and McCullough, Steven and Park, June Young},booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation},pages={293--294},year={2022}}