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Feature Selection for Sentiment Classification of COVID-19 Tweets: H-TFIDF Featuring BERT

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In the first quarter of 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a public health emergency around the globe. Different users from all over the world shared their opinions about COVID-19 on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. At the beginning of the pandemic, it became relevant to assess public opinions regarding COVID-19 using data available on social media. We used a recently proposed hierarchy-based measure for tweet analysis (H-TFIDF) for feature extraction over sentiment classification of tweets. We assessed how H-TFIDF and concatenation of H-TFIDF with bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BH-TFIDF) perform over state-of-the-art bag-of-words (BOW) and term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) features for sentiment classification of COVID-19 tweets. A uniform experimental setup of the training-test (90% and 10%) split scheme was used to train the classifier. Moreover, evaluation was performed with the gold standard expert labeled dataset to measure precision for each binary classified class.

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hal-03662199 , version 1 (09-05-2022)

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Mehtab Syed, Elena Arsevska, Mathieu Roche, Maguelonne Teisseire. Feature Selection for Sentiment Classification of COVID-19 Tweets: H-TFIDF Featuring BERT. 15th International Conference on Health Informatics, Feb 2022, Online Streaming, Belgium. pp.648-656, ⟨10.5220/0010887800003123⟩. ⟨hal-03662199⟩
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