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Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)

University of Jeddah · Jazan University

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Abstract

People are afraid about COVID-19 and are actively talking about it on social media platforms such as Twitter. People are showing their emotions openly in their tweets on Twitter. It's very important to perform sentiment analysis on these tweets for finding COVID-19's impact on people's lives. Natural language processing, textual processing, computational linguists, and biometrics are applied to perform sentiment analysis to identify and extract the emotions. In this work, sentiment analysis is carried out on a large Twitter dataset of English tweets. Ten emotional themes are investigated. Experimental results show that COVID-19 has spread fear/anxiety, gratitude, happiness and hope, and other mixed emotions…

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Keywords
  • Gratitude
  • Happiness
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
  • Psychology
  • Social media
  • Anxiety
  • Pandemic
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Good health and well-being
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