Exploring the evolution of sentiment in spanish pandemic tweets: a data analysis based on a fine-tuned bert architecture

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on various aspects of society, including economic, health, political, and work-related domains. The pandemic has also caused an emotional effect on individuals, reflected in their opinions and comments on social media platforms, such as Twitter. Thi...

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Autores: Henríquez Miranda, Carlos, Sanchez Torres, German, Salcedo, Dixon
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Colombia
Institución:Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:Repositorio REDICUC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/10569
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11323/10569
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Deep learning
Fine-tuning
Natural language processing
Evolution of feelings
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on various aspects of society, including economic, health, political, and work-related domains. The pandemic has also caused an emotional effect on individuals, reflected in their opinions and comments on social media platforms, such as Twitter. This study explores the evolution of sentiment in Spanish pandemic tweets through a data analysis based on a fine-tuned BERT architecture. A total of six million tweets were collected using web scraping techniques, and pre-processing was applied to filter and clean the data. The fine-tuned BERT architecture was utilized to perform sentiment analysis, which allowed for a deeplearning approach to sentiment classification. The analysis results were graphically represented based on search criteria, such as “COVID-19” and “coronavirus”. This study reveals sentiment trends, significant concerns, relationship with announced news, public reactions, and information dissemination, among other aspects. These findings provide insight into the emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals and the corresponding impact on social media platforms.