Sentiments analysis : Recitation of the concealed emotions of professionals during COVID-19

Abstract

Novel Corona Virus embarked from China and proliferated all over the world. The Government has bestowed various restrictions to curb the spread of the virus like lock down and restriction on moving out of their home along with follow up of social distancing. The pandemic has resulted in drastic change in people emotions and reactions to deal with sudden epidemic. Sudden manifest of perilous corona virus has disrupted the habitual regime of people along with emotions undermined. During lockdown and following the path of social distancing has made the maximum usage of online mode of communication. The online forum makes the people connected by comprehending each other’s emotions and rich involvement of empathy. People are using online mode like Twitter, Instagram, Blogs etc to share their feelings and emotions. The sentiments are palpable through various tweets across the nation. The study aims to understand the emotions of working professionals during COVID-19. In order to understand the emotional uproar, sentiment analysis is done. Sentiment analysis is vital tool for fetching up useful information through text documents. The data for the research was chosen from Twitter. The sentiments and emotions displayed by professional during COVID-19 will help to understand the frame of mind of people in such epidemic scenario and thereby craft suitable strategy to help them for coping the same. The research aims to explore the emotions and sentiments of working professionals through the post and text in twitter.

Subject Classification:

• 68T35

Keywords:

• Emotions
• Sentiments analysis
• Lockdown
• Data analytics
• Text mining
• Employees
• Network cluster analysis