Supplementary Materials for Study on Human Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This repository contains supplementary materials for research studies related to how human needs shift during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information on this research project, please refer to our paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07045

Human Needs Detection

./needs_detection/needs_regex_full.tsv contains a list of regular expressions used to extract human needs from search interactions. For definitions of need categories, please refer to the paper above.

• Need Id: maps to need subcategories
• Logic: KD refers to keyword and domain matching, Q refers to keyword only matching, D refers to domain only matching
• QueryRegex: Regular expression used to match the query string
• DomainRegex: Regular expressed used to match the clicked url