Analysing tweets on COVID-19 vaccine : A text mining approach

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large scale health, economic, and social crisis. Scientists throughout the globe have been working on producing effective vaccines to combat this pandemic. COVID-19 vaccine release started in 2020, and low take-up rates among the public have been observed initially....

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Main Authors: GOTTIPATI, Swetha, GUHA, Debashis
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9891
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10891/viewcontent/IEEE_Final_13_3_1570784231.pdf
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large scale health, economic, and social crisis. Scientists throughout the globe have been working on producing effective vaccines to combat this pandemic. COVID-19 vaccine release started in 2020, and low take-up rates among the public have been observed initially. There has been a soar in social media data on vaccines. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 vaccine-related tweets. Sentiments shared by people through tweets and common topics have been extracted using classification and sentiment analysis. Our results showed a higher negative sentiment when the pandemic was declared, and it gradually changed to positive with the COVID-19 vaccine development/rollout. Tweet sentiment analysis offers health departments around the globe a quick sense of public sentiment towards the vaccine. Dominant topics or areas of concern have been identified using topic modelling that might need to be addressed.