Analysis of the Effects of Lockdown on Staff and Students at Universities in Spain and Colombia Using Natural Language Processing Techniques
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
; 19(9):5705, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1837429
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of lockdown using natural language processing techniques, particularly sentiment analysis methods applied at large scale. Further, our work searches to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the university community, jointly on staff and students, and with a multi-country perspective. The main findings of this work show that the most often related words were “family”, “anxiety”, “house”, and “life”. Besides this finding, we also have shown that staff have a slightly less negative perception of the consequences of COVID-19 in their daily life. We have used artificial intelligence models such as swivel embedding and a multilayer perceptron as classification algorithms. The performance that was reached in terms of accuracy metrics was 88.8% and 88.5% for students and staff, respectively. The main conclusion of our study is that higher education institutions and policymakers around the world may benefit from these findings while formulating policy recommendations and strategies to support students during this and any future pandemics.
Sciences: Comprehensive Works; COVID-19; university student; socio-demographic factors; satisfaction; perception; online learning; mental health; habits; institutions; continents; natural language processing; Swivel embedding; word cloud; Pandemics; Social distancing; Higher education; Students; Artificial intelligence; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Language; Multilayer perceptrons; Social networks; Questionnaires; Community; Colleges & universities; Data mining; Sentiment analysis; Society; Education; Medical research; Impact analysis; Algorithms; Higher education institutions; Coronaviruses; Information sources; Embedding; Public opinion surveys; Colombia; Latin America; Spain
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Collection:
Databases of international organizations
Database:
ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Colombia
Language:
English
Journal:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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