COVID'19 in India: Emotion of the Nation A novel Spatio-Temporal Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis

ABSTRACT

The coronavirus was originated in Wuhan City in China in 2019, and it led to something for which the world was not prepared. In the world where the extent of COVID'19 was ubiquitous, India was one of the countries that witnessed multiple phases of its spread. Moreover, since India has one of the largest populations, this made analyzing the sentiment of people during this time a task that held significance. COVID'19 brought a mix of emotions across the different periods in its first 18 months. During this time, social media was flooded with tweets and hashtags expressing both favorable and negative opinions about COVID'19, pandemic, lockdown, and vaccines. © 2021 IEEE.