SENTIMENT ANALYSIS ABOUT BIDDING IN TWITTER® POSTS MADE DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD

Authors

  • Pablo Procópio Martins Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
  • Edjandir Corrêa Costa Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Alessandro Costa Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Aires José Rover Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • João Artur de Souza Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48090/ciki.v1i1.1021

Keywords:

sentiment analysis, . social networks, public purchases, machine learning

Abstract

Computerized social networks have become an environment in which the population expresses their concerns, due to the tools with greater autonomy and reverberation of their speeches. In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, these characteristics were enhanced. In this experiment, the social network Twitter® was used as a tool to measure the feeling of the Brazilian population about public purchases carried out during the aforementioned period. With a random base of 957 tweets for the classification task, divided into two groups: training and testing. The model included a pre-processing step in which repeated tweets posted by bot or fake users were eliminated. Three predictive algorithms were evaluated: Logistic Regression, Neural Networks and Random Forest. The Logistic Regression algorithm had the best performance with 0.777 accuracy.

Published

2022-03-16

How to Cite

Martins, P. P., Costa , E. C. ., Ribeiro, A. C. ., Rover, A. J. ., & Souza, J. A. de . (2022). SENTIMENT ANALYSIS ABOUT BIDDING IN TWITTER® POSTS MADE DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD. International Congress of Knowledge and Innovation - Ciki, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.48090/ciki.v1i1.1021