Sentiment analysis and its applications in fighting COVID-19 and infectious diseases: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 occurred unexpectedly in China in December 2019. Tens of millions of confirmed cases and more than hundreds of thousands of confirmed deaths are reported worldwide according to the World Health Organisation. News about the virus is spreading all over social media websites. Consequently, these social media outlets are experiencing and presenting different views, opinions and emotions during various outbreak-related incidents. For computer scientists and researchers, big data are valuable assets for understanding people's sentiments regarding current events, especially those related to the pandemic. Therefore, analysing these sentiments will yield remarkable findings. To the best of our knowledge, previous related

SUBMITTER: Alamoodi AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7591875 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature