COVID-19 Twitter Sentiment Classification Using Hybrid Deep Learning Model Based on Grid Search Methodology

TL;DR

This paper develops hybrid deep learning models utilizing grid search for sentiment analysis of COVID-19 tweets, achieving high accuracy and revealing evolving public opinions on vaccination.

Contribution

It introduces eight hybrid deep learning models with grid search optimization for COVID-19 tweet sentiment classification, improving accuracy over existing methods.

Findings

Proposed models achieved up to 98.86% accuracy.

Public sentiment towards COVID-19 vaccination is gradually improving.

Hybrid models outperform previous approaches by 2.11% to 14.46%.

Abstract

In the contemporary era, social media platforms amass an extensive volume of social data contributed by their users. In order to promptly grasp the opinions and emotional inclinations of individuals regarding a product or event, it becomes imperative to perform sentiment analysis on the user-generated content. Microblog comments often encompass both lengthy and concise text entries, presenting a complex scenario. This complexity is particularly pronounced in extensive textual content due to its rich content and intricate word interrelations compared to shorter text entries. Sentiment analysis of public opinion shared on social networking websites such as Facebook or Twitter has evolved and found diverse applications. However, several challenges remain to be tackled in this field. The hybrid methodologies have emerged as promising models for mitigating sentiment analysis errors, particularly when dealing with progressively intricate training data. In this article, to investigate the hesitancy of COVID-19 vaccination, we propose eight different hybrid deep learning models for sentiment classification with an aim of improving overall accuracy of the model. The sentiment prediction is achieved using embedding, deep learning model and grid search algorithm on Twitter COVID-19 dataset. According to the study, public sentiment towards COVID-19 immunization appears to be improving with time, as evidenced by the gradual decline in vaccine reluctance. Through extensive evaluation, proposed model reported an increased accuracy of 98.86%, outperforming other models. Specifically, the combination of BERT, CNN and GS yield the highest accuracy, while the combination of GloVe, BiLSTM, CNN and GS follows closely behind with an accuracy of 98.17%. In addition, increase in accuracy in the range of 2.11% to 14.46% is reported by the proposed model in comparisons with existing works.