Optimal Machine Learning Driven Sentiment Analysis on COVID-19 Twitter Data |
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Authors: | Bahjat Fakieh Abdullah S AL-Malaise AL-Ghamdi Farrukh Saleem Mahmoud Ragab |
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Affiliation: | School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China |
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Abstract: | The outbreak of the pandemic, caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has affected the daily activities of people across the globe. During COVID-19 outbreak and the successive lockdowns, Twitter was heavily used and the number of tweets regarding COVID-19 increased tremendously. Several studies used Sentiment Analysis (SA) to analyze the emotions expressed through tweets upon COVID-19. Therefore, in current study, a new Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) with Machine Learning-driven SA (ABCML-SA) model is developed for conducting Sentiment Analysis of COVID-19 Twitter data. The prime focus of the presented ABCML-SA model is to recognize the sentiments expressed in tweets made upon COVID-19. It involves data pre-processing at the initial stage followed by n-gram based feature extraction to derive the feature vectors. For identification and classification of the sentiments, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) model is exploited. At last, the ABC algorithm is applied to fine tune the parameters involved in SVM. To demonstrate the improved performance of the proposed ABCML-SA model, a sequence of simulations was conducted. The comparative assessment results confirmed the effectual performance of the proposed ABCML-SA model over other approaches. |
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Keywords: | Sentiment analysis twitter data data mining COVID-19 machine learning artificial bee colony |
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