Sentimental Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Related Tweets
Start Date
15-4-2021 3:30 PM
End Date
15-4-2021 3:45 PM
Student's Major
Computer Information Science
Student's College
Science, Engineering and Technology
Mentor's Name
Suboh Alkhushayni
Mentor's Department
Computer Information Science
Mentor's College
Science, Engineering and Technology
Description
The year 2020 will be remembered in history for the widespread destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pharmaceutical companies around the world have started working on the vaccine with many of them being in their final trial stage. However, vaccines take many years before they are available to the general public. In the current scenario, it is expected that it will be available by the end of 2020. Twitter is an online platform where people share their thoughts in the form of tweets. These tweets carry sentiments regarding specific topics organized by hashtags. This study’s main motive is to construct a domain-specific approach that will analyze the sentiments within tweets related to the COVID-19 vaccine. This can be done by gathering COVID-19 vaccine-specific tweets from the Twitter API. The tweets are then processed into a dataset that is suitable for the sentiment classifier algorithms. The dataset is then fed into the sentiment classifier algorithms with customized settings and features. The algorithms are used in both an individual and a hybrid model with n-gram features to compare the accuracy of the two models. Our study shows how a n-gram feature set affects the accuracy of the hybrid and individual sentiment classifier models.
Sentimental Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Related Tweets
The year 2020 will be remembered in history for the widespread destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pharmaceutical companies around the world have started working on the vaccine with many of them being in their final trial stage. However, vaccines take many years before they are available to the general public. In the current scenario, it is expected that it will be available by the end of 2020. Twitter is an online platform where people share their thoughts in the form of tweets. These tweets carry sentiments regarding specific topics organized by hashtags. This study’s main motive is to construct a domain-specific approach that will analyze the sentiments within tweets related to the COVID-19 vaccine. This can be done by gathering COVID-19 vaccine-specific tweets from the Twitter API. The tweets are then processed into a dataset that is suitable for the sentiment classifier algorithms. The dataset is then fed into the sentiment classifier algorithms with customized settings and features. The algorithms are used in both an individual and a hybrid model with n-gram features to compare the accuracy of the two models. Our study shows how a n-gram feature set affects the accuracy of the hybrid and individual sentiment classifier models.
