Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Jalal S. Alowibdi ◽  
Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi ◽  
Ali Daud ◽  
Mohamed M. Dessouky ◽  
Essa Ali Alhazmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Social Media Platforms

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 among people for different reasons. Specifically, it is observed that positive news from top officials like Trump of chloroquine as cure to COVID-19 has suddenly lowered fear in sentiment, and happiness, gratitude, and hope started to rise. But, once FDA said, chloroquine is not effective cure, fear again started to rise.

scholarly journals An Exploration of Impact of COVID 19 on mental health -Analysis of tweets using Natural Language Processing techniques

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohini Sengupta ◽  
Sareeta Mugde ◽  
Garima Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Gold Mine ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Processing Techniques

Twitter is one of the world's biggest social media platforms for hosting abundant number of user-generated posts. It is considered as a gold mine of data. Majority of the tweets are public and thereby pullable unlike other social media platforms. In this paper we are analyzing the topics related to mental health that are recently (June, 2020) been discussed on Twitter. Also amidst the on-going pandemic, we are going to find out if covid-19 emerges as one of the factors impacting mental health. Further we are going to do an overall sentiment analysis to better understand the emotions of users.

scholarly journals Recipe sharing on Pinterest- healthfulness assessment through nutrition information analysis and natural language processing (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolu Cheng ◽  
Shuo-Yu Lin ◽  
Kevin Wang ◽  
Alicia Hong ◽  
Xiaoquan Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Main Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Search History

BACKGROUND Although Pinterest has become a popular platform for distributing influential information that shapes users’ behaviors, the role of recipes pinned on Pinterest has not been well understood. OBJECTIVE To explore patterns of food ingredients and the nutritional content of recipes posted on Pinterest, and examine the factors associated with recipes that engaged more users. METHODS Data were randomly collected from Pinterest between June 28 and July 12, 2020 (207 recipes and 2,818 comments). All samples were collected via two new user accounts with no search history. A codebook was developed with a raw agreement rate of 0.97 across all variables. Content analysis and a novel natural language processing (NLP) sentiment analysis technique were employed. RESULTS Recipes using seafood or vegetables as the main ingredient had on average fewer calories and less sodium, sugar, and cholesterol compared to meat- or poultry-based recipes. For recipes using meat as the main ingredient, more energy was from fat (56.6%). Although the most followed pinners tended to post recipes containing more poultry/seafood and less meat, recipes serving higher fat or providing more calories per serving were more popular, having more shared photos/videos and comments. The NLP-based sentiment analysis suggested that Pinterest users weighted “taste” more heavily than “complexity” (less than 8% of comments) and “health” (less than 3% of comments). CONCLUSIONS While popular pinners tended to post recipes with more seafood/poultry/vegetables and less meat, recipes with higher fat and sugar content were more user-engaging, with more photo/video shares and comments. Data on Pinterest behaviors can inform developing and implementing nutrition health interventions on promoting healthy recipes on social media platforms.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis for Depression Based on Social Media Post by Using Natural Language Processing

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-139
Author(s):  
G. Neelavathi ◽  
D. Sowmiya ◽  
C. Sharmila ◽  
J. Vaishnavi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Linguistic Markers

Presently Research Center expresses that, 72% of public uses some sort of social media. More than 300 million individual experiences the depression and despondency, just a small amount of them get sufficient treatment. Discouragement is the main source of incapacity worldwide and almost 800,000 individuals consistently loss their life because of suicide. Suicide is the subsequent driving reason for death among teenagers. Our idea is to suggest solution for this problem. Social Media gives an extraordinary chance to change early depressions, especially in youngsters. Consistently, around 6,000 Tweets are tweeted per second, 350,000 tweets per minute, 500 million tweets each day and around 200 billion tweets each year. By using this rich source of data and information, can efficient model which provides report of person’s depression symptoms will be designed. In this model an algorithm that can examine Tweets Expressing self-assessed negative features by analyzing linguistic markers in social media posts.

Tasks, Approaches, and Avenues of Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Emotion Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-209
Author(s):  
Amira M. Idrees ◽  
Fatma Gamal Eldin ◽  
Amr Mansour Mohsen ◽  
Hesham Ahmed Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Product Reviews ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Know How

Every successful business aims to know how customers feel about its brands, services, and products. People freely express their views, ideas, sentiments, and opinions on social media for their day-to-day activities, for product reviews, for surveys, and even for their public opinions. This process provides a fortune of valuable resources about the market for any type of business. Unfortunately, it's impossible to manually analyze this massive quantity of information. Sentiment analysis (SA) and opinion mining (OM), as new fields of natural language processing, have the potential benefit of analyzing such a huge amount of data. SA or OM is the computational treatment of opinions, sentiments, and subjectivity of text. This chapter introduces the reader to a survey of different text SA and OM proposed techniques and approaches. The authors discuss in detail various approaches to perform a computational treatment for sentiments and opinions with their strengths and drawbacks.

scholarly journals A Systematic Study on Sentiment Analysis based on Text Mining and Deep learning for Predictions in Stock Market Trends Through Social and News Media Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1589-1593
Author(s):  
Suvigya Jain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
News Media ◽  
Market Sentiment ◽  
Market Trends

Abstract: Stock Market has always been one of the most active fields of research, many companies and organizations have focused their research in trying to find better ways to predict market trends. The stock market has been the instrument to measure the performance of a company and many have tried to develop methods that reduce risk for the investors. Since, the implementation of concepts like Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing has been made possible due to modern computing there has been a revolution in forecasting market trends. Also, the democratization of knowledge related to companies made possible due to the internet has provided the stake holders a means to learn about assets they choose to invest in through news media and social media also stock trading has become easier due to apps like robin hood etc. Every company now a days has some kind of social media presence or is usually reported by news media. This presence can lead to the growth of the companies by creating positive sentiment and also many losses by creating negative sentiments due to some public events. Our goal in this paper is to study the influence of news media and social media on market trends using sentiment analysis. Keywords: Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Stock Market, Sentiment analysis

scholarly journals FEATURES OF SENTIMENT ANALYSIS IMPLEMENTATION (INTERPRETATION OF SARCASM, WORD AMBIGUITY, NEGATION, AND MULTIPOLARITY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Levchenko ◽  
◽  
Nataliia Povoroznik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Technical Problems

In the past decades, sentiment analysis has become one of the most active research areas in natural language processing, data mining, web mining, and information retrieval. The great demand in everyday life and the factor of novelty coupled with the availability of data from social networks have served as strong motivation for research on sentiment-analysis. A number of technical problems, most of which had not been attempted before, either in the NLP or linguistics communities have also generated strong research interests in academia. Sentiment analysis, also called opin-ion mining, is the field of study that analyzes people’s opinions, sentiments, apprais-als, attitudes, and emotions toward entities and their attributes expressed in written text. The entities can be products, services, organizations, individuals, events, issues, or topics. The field represents a large problem space. It improves not only the field of natural language processing but also management, political science, economics, and sociology because all these areas are related to the thoughts of consumers and public. User-generated content is full of opinions, because the main reason why people post messages on social media platforms is to express their views and opinions, and therefore sentiment analysis is at the centre of social media analysis. It turned out that user messages often contain plenty of sarcastic expressions and ambiguous words. Within one opinion both positive and negative sentiments can be present. This also applies to negative particles, which do not always indicate a negative tone. This article investigates four challenges faced by researchers while conducting sentiment analysis, namely: sarcasm, negation, word ambiguity, and multipolarity. These aspects significantly affect the accuracy of the results when we determine a sentiment. Modern approaches to solving the problem are also covered. These are mainly machine learning methods, such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), deep neural networks (DNN), long short-term memory (LTSM), recurrent neural network (RNN), support vector machines (SVM), etc.

scholarly journals Natural language processing for analysis of student online sentiment in a postgraduate program

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Truc D Pham ◽  
Darcy Vo ◽  
Frank Li ◽  
Karen Baker ◽  
Binglan Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Language Processing Tool ◽  
Course Experience

Higher education institutes are continually looking for new and better ways to support and understand the learning experience of their students. One possible option is to use sentiment analysis tools to investigate the attitudes and emotions of students when they are interacting on social media about their course experience. In this study, we analysed the social media posts, from a closed programme-based community, of more than 300 students in a single programme cohort by processing the dataset with the Google cloud-based Natural Language Processing API for sentiment analysis. The sentiment scores and magnitudes were then visualised to help explore the research question ‘How does a natural language processing tool help analyse student online sentiment in a postgraduate program?’ The results have provided a better understanding of students’ online sentiment relating to the activities and assessments of the programme as well as the variation of that sentiment over the timeline of the programme.

scholarly journals Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to Detect and Characterize Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales: Infoveillance Study on Twitter and Instagram

10.2196/20794 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e20794
Author(s):  
Tim Ken Mackey ◽  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Vidya Purushothaman ◽  
Matthew Nali ◽  
Neal Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Products ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is perhaps the greatest global health challenge of the last century. Accompanying this pandemic is a parallel “infodemic,” including the online marketing and sale of unapproved, illegal, and counterfeit COVID-19 health products including testing kits, treatments, and other questionable “cures.” Enabling the proliferation of this content is the growing ubiquity of internet-based technologies, including popular social media platforms that now have billions of global users. Objective This study aims to collect, analyze, identify, and enable reporting of suspected fake, counterfeit, and unapproved COVID-19–related health care products from Twitter and Instagram. Methods This study is conducted in two phases beginning with the collection of COVID-19–related Twitter and Instagram posts using a combination of web scraping on Instagram and filtering the public streaming Twitter application programming interface for keywords associated with suspect marketing and sale of COVID-19 products. The second phase involved data analysis using natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning to identify potential sellers that were then manually annotated for characteristics of interest. We also visualized illegal selling posts on a customized data dashboard to enable public health intelligence. Results We collected a total of 6,029,323 tweets and 204,597 Instagram posts filtered for terms associated with suspect marketing and sale of COVID-19 health products from March to April for Twitter and February to May for Instagram. After applying our NLP and deep learning approaches, we identified 1271 tweets and 596 Instagram posts associated with questionable sales of COVID-19–related products. Generally, product introduction came in two waves, with the first consisting of questionable immunity-boosting treatments and a second involving suspect testing kits. We also detected a low volume of pharmaceuticals that have not been approved for COVID-19 treatment. Other major themes detected included products offered in different languages, various claims of product credibility, completely unsubstantiated products, unapproved testing modalities, and different payment and seller contact methods. Conclusions Results from this study provide initial insight into one front of the “infodemic” fight against COVID-19 by characterizing what types of health products, selling claims, and types of sellers were active on two popular social media platforms at earlier stages of the pandemic. This cybercrime challenge is likely to continue as the pandemic progresses and more people seek access to COVID-19 testing and treatment. This data intelligence can help public health agencies, regulatory authorities, legitimate manufacturers, and technology platforms better remove and prevent this content from harming the public.

scholarly journals Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to Detect and Characterize Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales: Infoveillance Study on Twitter and Instagram (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Ken Mackey ◽  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Vidya Purushothaman ◽  
Matthew Nali ◽  
Neal Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Products ◽  
Social Media Platforms

BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is perhaps the greatest global health challenge of the last century. Accompanying this pandemic is a parallel “infodemic,” including the online marketing and sale of unapproved, illegal, and counterfeit COVID-19 health products including testing kits, treatments, and other questionable “cures.” Enabling the proliferation of this content is the growing ubiquity of internet-based technologies, including popular social media platforms that now have billions of global users. OBJECTIVE This study aims to collect, analyze, identify, and enable reporting of suspected fake, counterfeit, and unapproved COVID-19–related health care products from Twitter and Instagram. METHODS This study is conducted in two phases beginning with the collection of COVID-19–related Twitter and Instagram posts using a combination of web scraping on Instagram and filtering the public streaming Twitter application programming interface for keywords associated with suspect marketing and sale of COVID-19 products. The second phase involved data analysis using natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning to identify potential sellers that were then manually annotated for characteristics of interest. We also visualized illegal selling posts on a customized data dashboard to enable public health intelligence. RESULTS We collected a total of 6,029,323 tweets and 204,597 Instagram posts filtered for terms associated with suspect marketing and sale of COVID-19 health products from March to April for Twitter and February to May for Instagram. After applying our NLP and deep learning approaches, we identified 1271 tweets and 596 Instagram posts associated with questionable sales of COVID-19–related products. Generally, product introduction came in two waves, with the first consisting of questionable immunity-boosting treatments and a second involving suspect testing kits. We also detected a low volume of pharmaceuticals that have not been approved for COVID-19 treatment. Other major themes detected included products offered in different languages, various claims of product credibility, completely unsubstantiated products, unapproved testing modalities, and different payment and seller contact methods. CONCLUSIONS Results from this study provide initial insight into one front of the “infodemic” fight against COVID-19 by characterizing what types of health products, selling claims, and types of sellers were active on two popular social media platforms at earlier stages of the pandemic. This cybercrime challenge is likely to continue as the pandemic progresses and more people seek access to COVID-19 testing and treatment. This data intelligence can help public health agencies, regulatory authorities, legitimate manufacturers, and technology platforms better remove and prevent this content from harming the public.

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