Feature-Based Sentimental Analysis on Public Attention towards COVID-19 Using CUDA-SADBM Classification Model

Sensors (Basel). 2021 Dec 23;22(1):80. doi: 10.3390/s22010080.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to almost all countries of the World and affected people both mentally and economically. The primary motivation of this research is to construct a model that takes reviews or evaluations from several people who are affected with COVID-19. As the number of cases has accelerated day by day, people are becoming panicked and concerned about their health. A good model may be helpful to provide accurate statistics in interpreting the actual records about the pandemic. In the proposed work, for sentimental analysis, a unique classifier named the Sentimental DataBase Miner algorithm (SADBM) is used to categorize the opinions and parallel processing, and is applied on the data collected from various online social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. The accuracy of the proposed model is validated with trained data and compared with basic classifiers, such as logistic regression and decision tree. The proposed algorithm is executed on CPU as well as GPU and calculated the acceleration ratio of the model. The results show that the proposed model provides the best accuracy compared with the other two models, i.e., 96% (GPU).

Keywords: CUDA; GPU; SADBM; parallel processing; reviews.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Attention
  • COVID-19*
  • Humans
  • Pandemics
  • SARS-CoV-2