Title
Identify sentiments in quarantine by covid-19 through lexical classifier and supervised learning
Other title
Identificar sentimientos en cuarentena por la covid-19 mediante clasificador léxico y aprendizaje supervisado
Date Issued
01 February 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Associacao Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao
Abstract
The Covid-19 began to affect Peru on March 6 of 2020, preventive measures were started to prevent the spread. On March 15 compulsory social isolation began throughout Peru, the people use Twitter to exchange various information about social isolation, this is important for authorities and the public because it helps to consider strategies to avoid contagion. The present work has the objective to classify the positive and negative sentiment that were expressed on Twitter through the proposal of the Lexical Word Classifier and the use of classifying algorithms. The result obtained was that the most frequent words are: Quarantine, Covid and Home. The positive words were Good and Win, the negative word was Strange. The sentiment classification model reached 91.5% accuracy using the Support Vector Machine algorithm and the Lexicon Word Classifier.
Start page
618
End page
631
Volume
2021
Issue
E41
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Lenguas, Literatura
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85105449961
Source
RISTI - Revista Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao
ISSN of the container
16469895
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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