Application of public emotion feature extraction algorithm based on social media communication in public opinion analysis of natural disasters

PeerJ Comput Sci. 2023 Jun 16:9:e1417. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1417. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

Natural disasters are usually sudden and unpredictable, so it is too difficult to infer them. Reducing the impact of sudden natural disasters on the economy and society is a very effective method to control public opinion about disasters and reconstruct them after disasters through social media. Thus, we propose a public sentiment feature extraction method by social media transmission to realize the intelligent analysis of natural disaster public opinion. Firstly, we offer a public opinion analysis method based on emotional features, which uses feature extraction and Transformer technology to perceive the sentiment in public opinion samples. Then, the extracted features are used to identify the public emotions intelligently, and the collection of public emotions in natural disasters is realized. Finally, through the collected emotional information, the public's demands and needs in natural disasters are obtained, and the natural disaster public opinion analysis system based on social media communication is realized. Experiments demonstrate that our algorithm can identify the category of public opinion on natural disasters with an accuracy of 90.54%. In addition, our natural disaster public opinion analysis system can deconstruct the current situation of natural disasters from point to point and grasp the disaster situation in real-time.

Keywords: Emotion feature; Public opinion analysis; Social media communication.

Associated data

  • figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.3465974.v2

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. ZY20215146). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.