Title
An Intelligent Hybrid Sentiment Analyzer for Personal Protective Medical Equipments Based on Word Embedding Technique: The COVID-19 Era
Abstract
Due to the accelerated growth of symmetrical sentiment data across different platforms, experimenting with different sentiment analysis (SA) techniques allows for better decision-making and strategic planning for different sectors. Specifically, the emergence of COVID-19 has enriched the data of people's opinions and feelings about medical products. In this paper, we analyze people's sentiments about the products of a well-known e-commerce website named Alibaba.com. People's sentiments are experimented with using a novel evolutionary approach by applying advanced pre-trained word embedding for word presentations and combining them with an evolutionary feature selection mechanism to classify these opinions into different levels of ratings. The proposed approach is based on harmony search algorithm and different classification techniques including random forest, k-nearest neighbor, AdaBoost, bagging, SVM, and REPtree to achieve competitive results with the least possible features. The experiments are conducted on five different datasets including medical gloves, hand sanitizer, medical oxygen, face masks, and a combination of all these datasets. The results show that the harmony search algorithm successfully reduced the number of features by 94.25%, 89.5%, 89.25%, 92.5%, and 84.25% for the medical glove, hand sanitizer, medical oxygen, face masks, and whole datasets, respectively, while keeping a competitive performance in terms of accuracy and root mean square error (RMSE) for the classification techniques and decreasing the computational time required for classification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/sym13122287
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
word embedding, sentiment, medical products, metaheuristic, pre-trained models
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
12
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruba Obiedat101.35
Laila Al Qaisi200.34
Raneem Qaddoura312.39
Osama Harfoushi401.01
Ala' M. Al-Zoubi52219.83