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International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology, 7(09): 13-18, 2021
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ISSN: 2455-3778 online
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46501/IJMTST0709003
Available online at: http://www.ijmtst.com/vol7issue09.html
COVID19 Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning
Classification Algorithms
Kusumanchi Naga Sireesha
1
, Padala Srinivasa Reddy
2
1
PG Scholar, Department of Computer Science, SVKP & Dr K S Raju Arts & Science College, Penugonda, W.G.Dt., A.P, India.
2
Associate Professor in Computer Science, SVKP & Dr K S Raju Arts & Science College, Penugonda, W.G.Dt., A.P, India.
To Cite this Article
Kusumanchi Naga Sireesha and Padala Srinivasa Reddy. COVID19 Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning
Classification Algorithms. International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology 2021, 7, 0709007, pp. 13-18.
https://doi.org/10.46501/IJMTST0709003
Article Info
Received: 09 August 2021; Accepted: 31 August 2021; Published: 01 September 2021
Along with the Coronavirus pandemic, another crisis has manifested itself in the form of mass fear and panic phenomena, fuelled
by incomplete and often inaccurate information. There is therefore a tremendous need to address and better understand
COVID-19’s informational crisis. The diverse use of social networking sites, like Twitter, speeds up the process of sharing
information and having views on community events and health crises COVID-19 has been one of Twitter's trending areas. The
Twitter messages created via Twitter are named Tweets.
In this paper, we identify public sentiment associated with the pandemic using Coronavirus-specific Tweets and Python,
along with its sentiment analysis packages. We provide an overview of two essential machine learning classification methods, in
the context of textual analytics, and compare their effectiveness in classifying Coronavirus Tweets of varying lengths. This
research provides insights into Coronavirus fear sentiment progression, associated methods, limitations, and different
opportunities. In this project, we have designed a Sentiment analysis System that would identify the sentiment of a tweet and
classify it into one of the five classes they include:”ExtremelyPositive”,“Positive”,”Neutral”, ”Negative” and “Extremely
Negative”.
KEYWORDS: covid, healthcare, nlp, machine learning, text data, tweeter, social media, sentiment analysis, text vectorization
1.INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, the Internet is becoming worldwide
popular, and it is serving as a cost-effective platform for
information carriers by the rapid enlargement of social
media. Several social media platforms like blogs,
reviews, posts, tweets are being processed for extracting
the people’s opinions about a particular product,
organization, or situation. The attitude and feelings
comprise an essential part in evaluating the behaviour
of an individual
that is known as sentiments. These sentiments can
further be analyzed towards an entity, known as
sentiment analysis or opinion mining. By using
sentiment analysis, we can interpret the sentiments or
emotions of others and classify them into different
categories that help an organization to know people’s
emotions and act accordingly. This analysis depends on
its expected outcomes, e.g., analyzing the text
depending on its polarity and emotions, feedback about
a particular feature, and analyzing the text in different
languages require detection of the respective language.
ABSTRACT