scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis of the Syrian Conflict on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Danijela Lucić ◽  
Josip Katalinić ◽  
Tomislav Dokman

Social media have become an important means of imposing ideas and interests in social‏ conflicts. The Syrian conflict is analysed using sentiment analysis of tweets in order to establish how the‏ sentiment shapes the modern political landscape and influences recipient knowledge. The importance of‏ social networks and their potential in overthrowing regimes as well as in radicalization are highlighted.‏ The authors suggest several stages that can be used for analysing tweets and how they impact the reader‏ with selected narration. Sentiment analysis is used on a trained data set as a way to gain insight into‏ tweets of different factions in the Syria conflict. Selected tweets on missile strikes were published on 14‏ April 2018 and the day after. The Twitter profiles of three different sides – pro-Assad, pro-West and anti-‏ Assad – were also analysed. The results show that there is a real battle on social media with the purpose‏ of influencing human emotions.

Author(s):  
Asdrúbal López Chau ◽  
David Valle-Cruz ◽  
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazán

One of the pillars of connected government is citizen centricity: an approach in which citizen participation is essential. In Mexico, social networks are currently one of the most important means by which citizens express their needs and provide opinions to the government. The goal of this chapter is to contribute to citizen centricity by adapting the methodology of sentiment analysis of social media posts to an expanded version for crisis situations. The main difference in this approach from the normally accepted one is that instead of using pre-defined classes (positive and negative) for sentiments, the authors first determined the different data categories and then applied them to the classic process of sentiment analysis. This approach was tested using posts on Mexico's earthquake in 2017. They found that needs, demands, and claims made in the posts reflect sentiments in a better way, and this can help to improve the government-citizen connection.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
C S Pavan Kumar ◽  
L D Dhinesh Babu

Sentiment analysis is widely used to retrieve the hidden sentiments in medical discussions over Online Social Networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. People often tend to convey their feelings concerning their medical problems over social media platforms. Practitioners and health care workers have started to observe these discussions to assess the impact of health-related issues among the people. This helps in providing better care to improve the quality of life. Dementia is a serious disease in western countries like the United States of America and the United Kingdom, and the respective governments are providing facilities to the affected people. There is much chatter over social media platforms concerning the patients’ care, healthy measures to be followed to avoid disease, check early indications. These chatters have to be carefully monitored to help the officials take necessary precautions for the betterment of the affected. A novel Feature engineering architecture that involves feature-split for sentiment analysis of medical chatter over online social networks with the pipeline is proposed that can be used on any Machine Learning model. The proposed model used the fuzzy membership function in refining the outputs. The machine learning model has obtained sentiment score is subjected to fuzzification and defuzzification by using the trapezoid membership function and center of sums method, respectively. Three datasets are considered for comparison of the proposed and the regular model. The proposed approach delivered better results than the normal approach and is proved to be an effective approach for sentiment analysis of medical discussions over online social networks.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujata Rani ◽  
Parteek Kumar

Abstract In this article, an innovative approach to perform the sentiment analysis (SA) has been presented. The proposed system handles the issues of Romanized or abbreviated text and spelling variations in the text to perform the sentiment analysis. The training data set of 3,000 movie reviews and tweets has been manually labeled by native speakers of Hindi in three classes, i.e. positive, negative, and neutral. The system uses WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) tool to convert these string data into numerical matrices and applies three machine learning techniques, i.e. Naive Bayes (NB), J48, and support vector machine (SVM). The proposed system has been tested on 100 movie reviews and tweets, and it has been observed that SVM has performed best in comparison to other classifiers, and it has an accuracy of 68% for movie reviews and 82% in case of tweets. The results of the proposed system are very promising and can be used in emerging applications like SA of product reviews and social media analysis. Additionally, the proposed system can be used in other cultural/social benefits like predicting/fighting human riots.


2022 ◽  
pp. 255-263
Author(s):  
Chirag Visani ◽  
Vishal Sorathiya ◽  
Sunil Lavadiya

The popularity of the internet has increased the use of e-commerce websites and news channels. Fake news has been around for many years, and with the arrival of social media and modern-day news at its peak, easy access to e-platform and exponential growth of the knowledge available on social media networks has made it intricate to differentiate between right and wrong information, which has caused large effects on the offline society already. A crucial goal in improving the trustworthiness of data in online social networks is to spot fake news so the detection of spam news becomes important. For sentiment mining, the authors specialise in leveraging Facebook, Twitter, and Whatsapp, the most prominent microblogging platforms. They illustrate how to assemble a corpus automatically for sentiment analysis and opinion mining. They create a sentiment classifier using the corpus that can classify between fake, real, and neutral opinions in a document.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Francisca Oladipo ◽  
Ogunsanya, F. B ◽  
Musa, A. E. ◽  
Ogbuju, E. E ◽  
Ariwa, E.

The social media space has evolved into a large labyrinth of information exchange platform and due to the growth in the adoption of different social media platforms, there has been an increasing wave of interests in sentiment analysis as a paradigm for the mining and analysis of users’ opinions and sentiments based on their posts. In this paper, we present a review of contextual sentiment analysis on social media entries with a specific focus on Twitter. The sentimental analysis consists of two broad approaches which are machine learning which uses classification techniques to classify text and is further categorized into supervised learning and unsupervised learning; and the lexicon-based approach which uses a dictionary without using any test or training data set, unlike the machine learning approach.  


Author(s):  
Ulfa Khaira ◽  
Ragil Johanda ◽  
Pradita Eko Prasetyo Utomo ◽  
Tri Suratno

Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that takes place across virtually every social media platform. Twitter is a form of social media that allows users to exchange information. Bullying has been a growing problem on Twitter over the past few years. Sentiment analysis is done to identify the element of bullying in a tweet. Sentiments are divided into 3 classes, namely Bullying, Non-Bullying and neutral. There are three steps to classify cyberbullying i.e. collection of data set, preprocessing data, and classification process. This research used sentiStrength, an algorithm which uses a lexicon based approach. This SentiStrength lexicon contains the weight of its sentiment strength. The assessment results from 454 tweets data obtained 161 tweet non-bullying (35.4%), 87 tweet neutral (19.1%), and 206 tweet bullying (45.4%). This research produces an accuracy value of 60.5%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Hafzullah İş ◽  
Taner Tuncer

It is highly important to detect malicious account interaction in social networks with regard to political, social and economic aspects. This paper analyzed the profile structure of social media users using their data interactions. A total of 10 parameters including diameter, density, reciprocity, centrality and modularity were used to comprehensively characterize the interactions of Twitter users. Moreover, a new data set was formed by visualizing the data obtained with these parameters. User profiles were classified using Convolutional Neural Network models with deep learning. Users were divided into active, passive and malicious classes. Success rates for the algorithms used in the classification were estimated based on the hyper parameters and application platforms. The best model had a success rate of 98.67%. The methodology demonstrated that Twitter user profiles can be classified successfully through user interaction-based parameters. It is expected that this paper will contribute to published literature in terms of behavioral analysis and the determination of malicious accounts in social networks.


Author(s):  
Pushkar Dubey

Social networks are the main resources to gather information about people’s opinion towards different topics as they spend hours daily on social media and share their opinion. Twitter is one of the social media that is gaining popularity. Twitter offers organizations a fast and effective way to analyze customers’ perspectives toward the critical to success in the market place. Developing a program for sentiment analysis is an approach to be used to computationally measure customers’ perceptions. .We use natural language processing and machine learning concepts to create a model for analysis . In this paper we are discussing how we can create a model for analysis of twittes which is trained by various nlp , machine learning and Deep learning Approach.


2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 366-370
Author(s):  
N.K. Kadyrbek ◽  
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М.Е. Mansurova ◽  
М.Е. Kyrgyzbayeva ◽  
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Due to the growing trust in information in social media resources, interest in the field of sentiment analysis is growing. Because sentiment analysis is one of the main technologies for monitoring the opinions of millions of users of social networks. The article discusses the use of LSTM networks in the analysis of the tonality of texts in the Kazakh language. For training the neural network, 1000 user reviews of mobile phones were used. The experiments were carried out in two ways: in the first case, preprocessing of the analyzed reviews was carried out, in the second case, the preprocessing was not carried out. The average value of the metric for assessing the quality of the pre-processed model reached 80%. This indicator is 11% higher than for a model trained on data without preprocessing. The results of the study allowed us to conclude that the preprocessing of the texts improves the quality of the model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Spettel ◽  
Dimitrios Vagianos

Social media are heavily used to shape political discussions. Thus, it is valuable for corporations and political parties to be able to analyze the content of those discussions. This is exemplified by the work of Cambridge Analytica, in support of the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump. One of the most straightforward metrics is the sentiment of a message, whether it is considered as positive or negative. There are many commercial and/or closed-source tools available which make it possible to analyze social media data, including sentiment analysis (SA). However, to our knowledge, not many publicly available tools have been developed that allow for analyzing social media data and help researchers around the world to enter this quickly expanding field of study. In this paper, we provide a thorough description of implementing a tool that can be used for performing sentiment analysis on tweets. In an effort to underline the necessity for open tools and additional monitoring on the Twittersphere, we propose an implementation model based exclusively on publicly available open-source software. The resulting tool is capable of downloading Tweets in real-time based on hashtags or account names and stores the sentiment for replies to specific tweets. It is therefore capable of measuring the average reaction to one tweet by a person or a hashtag, which can be represented with graphs. Finally, we tested our open-source tool within a case study based on a data set of Twitter accounts and hashtags referring to the Syrian war, covering a short time window of one week in the spring of 2018. The results show that while high accuracy of commercial or other complicated tools may not be achieved, our proposed open source tool makes it possible to get a good overview of the overall replies to specific tweets, as well as a practical perception of tweets, related to specific hashtags, identifying them as positive or negative.


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