Published on in Vol 9, No 10 (2021): October

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/29584, first published .
Categorizing Vaccine Confidence With a Transformer-Based Machine Learning Model: Analysis of Nuances of Vaccine Sentiment in Twitter Discourse

Categorizing Vaccine Confidence With a Transformer-Based Machine Learning Model: Analysis of Nuances of Vaccine Sentiment in Twitter Discourse

Categorizing Vaccine Confidence With a Transformer-Based Machine Learning Model: Analysis of Nuances of Vaccine Sentiment in Twitter Discourse

Per E Kummervold   1 , PhD ;   Sam Martin   2, 3, 4, 5 , LLB, MSc, PhD ;   Sara Dada   4, 6 , MSc ;   Eliz Kilich   4 , BMBCh ;   Chermain Denny   7 , BSc ;   Pauline Paterson   4, 8 , PhD ;   Heidi J Larson   4, 8, 9, 10 , PhD

1 Vaccine Research Department, FISABIO-Public Health, Valencia, Spain

2 Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

3 Rapid Research Evaluation and Appraisal Lab, Departament of Targeted Intervention, University College London, London, United Kingdom

4 Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

5 Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

6 UCD Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education and Innovation in Health Systems, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

7 Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

8 NIHR Health Protection Research Unit, London, United Kingdom

9 Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

10 Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Per E Kummervold, PhD
  • Vaccine Research Department
  • FISABIO-Public Health
  • Avda. de Catalunya, 21
  • Valencia, 46020
  • Spain
  • Phone: 34 41435795
  • Email: per@capia.no