Bahjat Fakieh1, Abdullah S. AL-Malaise AL-Ghamdi1,2,3, Farrukh Saleem1, Mahmoud Ragab2,4,5,6,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 81-97, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033406
Abstract The outbreak of the pandemic, caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), has affected the daily activities of people across the globe. During COVID-19 outbreak and the successive lockdowns, Twitter was heavily used and the number of tweets regarding COVID-19 increased tremendously. Several studies used Sentiment Analysis (SA) to analyze the emotions expressed through tweets upon COVID-19. Therefore, in current study, a new Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) with Machine Learning-driven SA (ABCML-SA) model is developed for conducting Sentiment Analysis of COVID-19 Twitter data. The prime focus of the presented ABCML-SA model is to recognize the sentiments More >