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原文传递 Analyzing Multilingual Discussions of the Standard Gauge Railway Project in Kenya Using Natural Language Processing and Social Media Analysis.

题名：	Analyzing Multilingual Discussions of the Standard Gauge Railway Project in Kenya Using Natural Language Processing and Social Media Analysis.
作者：	Morrison, M; Sauer, J; Overos, H; Newlands, J; Stewart, K; Wood, T.
摘要：	Development of infrastructure in Kenya, especially transportation infrastructure, began receiving partialfinancing investments by the Chinese government beginning in 2014 as part of China’s broader Belt andRoad Initiative (BRI). While there has been significant journalistic, academic, and governmentalexploration of China’s new global investment strategies, less analysis has focused on local reactions tothese new development relationships. In this study, we gather publicly available social media datacentered around a large Kenya-Chinese infrastructure project, the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard GaugeRailway (SGR). We used automated natural language processing strategies as well as manual analysisof social media data from Twitter to understand discussion topics, attitudes, and sentiments of Kenyanstowards domestic Kenya-China infrastructure projects. We advance research on multilingual digitalexpression through the analysis of social media data in both English and Swahili.
总页数：	25 pages