Author(s)

Zhiyuan He ¹, Yaqiao Li ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author

Zhiyuan He

ABSTRACT

Due to the global spread of COVID-19, it has caused many negative comments on the Internet. However, there is very little research on the spread and changes of negative speech during the epidemic, and very little is known about it. In this work, we use twitter as the source of social media voice, and use twitter api to collect related tweet data. We use existing manually labeled data sets, train different text classifiers and compare their performance, and use the best-performing text classifier to classify our collected tweets as negative and positive. Through these data analysis, we found that from the beginning of the pandemic to the outbreak, there are more negative tweets and greater impact than positive tweets. We need to understand these changing trends, so as to guide the online media to play a correct role in guiding society.

KEYWORDS

COVID-19, Text classifiers, Social media, Deep learning

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhiyuan He, Yaqiao Li, Guide Social Media to Play the Correct Direction Based on Text Classification. Journal of Electronics and Information Science (2022) Vol. 7: 14-24. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jeis.2022.070102.

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