| Challenge: | Social media are integrated with our daily life and are used to circulate information. |
| Approach: | They develop and publicly release the first largest manually annotated Arabic tweet dataset for COVID-19 vaccination campaign. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is the largest manually annotated Arabic tweet dataset for COVID-19 vaccination campaign, covering many countries in the Arab region. |
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