CrisisNLP — 2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en

A Twitter dataset of 383 tweets from 2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en, collected by CrisisNLP Research Group for 2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, timestamp, user metadata. Crisis-related tweets from the 2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisisnlp#Epidemic#Humanitarian category#Mers

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9.3
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
mersvirussaudicasescoronaviruscovarabiahealthmiddleeastrespiratorysyndromenewegyptcoronadeathscasenewstolldeathksacamelsdiseaseministersaudiarabiasurgedeadlyexpertreportssaysdiedlikeoutbreakchangedmanreported2014aprilbahrainsarsupdate100confirmedgermanhasniloiloknowministry339algerian
Topic clusters

Topic 0

saudi
case
arabia
spike
mer
outbreak
big
surge

Topic 1

cov
doh
effort
step
mers
russia
information
suspect

Topic 2

camel
source
human
oman
find
virus
transfer
genome

Topic 3

death
toll
saudiarabia
cases
fear
saudi
public
new

Topic 4

man
die
country
fatality
ministry
announce
old
death

Topic 5

syndrome
respiratory
east
middle
friend
travel
scary
confirm

Topic 6

arabia
dead
saudi
die
death
mers
infect
saudis

Topic 7

worried
virus
worry
deadly
mers
opinion
polio
antibodie

Topic 8

corona
know
infographic
black
alert
awareness
virus
like

Topic 9

ksa
apr
update
spread
case
happy
cure
available

Topic 10

corona
saudi
jeddah
coronavirus
arabia
ksa
bear
air

Topic 11

virus
face
happy
security
real
look
life
hit
Show all 20 topics

Topic 12

egypt
symptom
flu
urge
contain
minister
like
report

Topic 13

east
middle
syndrome
respiratory
coronavirus
update
cri
halong

Topic 14

hear
iloilo
cov
mum
track
guy
safe
watch

Topic 15

egypt
deadly
discover
suspect
case
cbc
hosp
local

Topic 16

test
authority
announce
campaign
launch
coronavirus
awareness
health

Topic 17

expert
change
surge
cause
coronavirus
virus
infection
reason

Topic 18

vaccine
jeddah
april
outbreak
saudiarabia
thank
great
epidemic

Topic 19

comment
great
loss
mean
kind
rumor
widely
sack
Top hashtags
#mers136
#coronavirus19
#saudi17
#saudiarabia14
#health13
#egypt8
#ksa8
#news6
#virus4
#bahrain3
#philippines3
#who3
#algeria2
#beta2c2
#cairo2
#corona2
#ebola2
#flu2
#hajj2
#moh2

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisisnlp-2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en
Authors
Imran, Muhammad; Mitra, Prasenjit; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2016
Source paper
Twitter as a Lifeline: Human-annotated Twitter Corpora for NLP of Crisis-related Messages
DOI / arXiv
10.48550/arXiv.1605.05894
License
See source page for citation/usage terms (CrisisNLP dataset)
Records
383
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2014 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/CrisisNLP link checked

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1605.05894,
  doi       = {10.48550/ARXIV.1605.05894},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05894},
  author    = {Imran, Muhammad and Mitra, Prasenjit and Castillo, Carlos},
  keywords  = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), Computers and Society (cs.CY), Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title     = {Twitter as a Lifeline: Human-annotated Twitter Corpora for NLP of Crisis-related Messages},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year      = {2016},
  copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Imran, M., Mitra, P., & Castillo, C. (2016). CrisisNLP — 2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1605.05894

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Imran, Muhammad, et al. CrisisNLP — 2014_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_en. 2016, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1605.05894.

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