ABSTRACT
Social media materialized as an influential platform that allows people to share their views on global and local issues. Sentiment analysis can handle these massive amounts of unstructured reviews and convert them into meaningful opinions. Undoubtedly, COVID-19 originated as the enormous challenge across the world that physically and financially bruted humankind. Meanwhile, farmers' protests shook up the world against three pieces of legislation passed by the Indian government. Hence, an artificial intelligence-based sentiment model is needed for suggesting the right direction toward outbreaks. Although Deep Neural Network (DNN) gained popularity in sentiment analysis applications, these still have a limitation of sequential training, high-dimension feature space, and equal feature importance distribution. In addition, inaccurate polarity scoring and utility-based topic modeling are other challenging aspects of sentiment analysis. It motivates us to propose a Knowledge-Enriched Attention-based Hybrid Transformer (KEAHT) model by enriching the explicit knowledge of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and lexicalized domain ontology. A pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformer (BERT) is employed to train within a minimum training corpus. It provides the facility of attention mechanism and can solve complex text problems accurately. A comparative study with existing baselines and recent hybrid models affirms the credibility of the proposed KEAHT in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This model emphasizes artificial intelligence's role in handling the situation of the global pandemic and democratic dispute in a country. Furthermore, two benchmark datasets, namely "COVID-19-Vaccine-Labelled-Tweets" and "Indian-Farmer-Protest-Labelled-Tweets", are also constructed to accommodate future researchers for outlining the essential facts associated with the outbreaks.
ABSTRACT
Pandemic novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) is an infectious disease that primarily spreads by droplets of nose discharge when sneezing and saliva from the mouth when coughing, that had first been reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Covid-19 became a global pandemic, which led to a harmful impact on the world. Many predictive models of Covid-19 are being proposed by academic researchers around the world to take the foremost decisions and enforce the appropriate control measures. Due to the lack of accurate Covid-19 records and uncertainty, the standard techniques are being failed to correctly predict the epidemic global effects. To address this issue, we present an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based meta-analysis to predict the trend of epidemic Covid-19 over the world. The powerful machine learning algorithms namely Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Linear Regression were applied on real time-series dataset, which holds the global record of confirmed, recovered, deaths and active cases of Covid-19 outbreak. Statistical analysis has also been conducted to present various facts regarding Covid-19 observed symptoms, a list of Top-20 Coronavirus affected countries and a number of coactive cases over the world. Among the three machine learning techniques investigated, Naïve Bayes produced promising results to predict Covid-19 future trends with less Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Mean Squared Error (MSE). The less value of MAE and MSE strongly represent the effectiveness of the Naïve Bayes regression technique. Although, the global footprint of this pandemic is still uncertain. This study demonstrates the various trends and future growth of the global pandemic for a proactive response from the citizens and governments of countries. This paper sets the initial benchmark to demonstrate the capability of machine learning for outbreak prediction.