Decoding Emotions Through Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Conversations
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Project Title:
Decoding Emotions Through Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Conversations
1. Problem Statement
Understanding public emotions is essential in a digitally connected world where people frequently
express themselves through social media platforms. This project aims to analyze social media
conversations to detect and classify emotions (e.g., joy, anger, sadness, surprise, fear). By
leveraging sentiment analysis and natural language processing (NLP), this project seeks to decode
emotional signals embedded in user-generated content.
This classification-based NLP task can support brands, policymakers, mental health professionals,
and researchers in monitoring emotional trends, detecting crises, and improving user engagement.
2. Project Objectives
- Develop a machine learning/NLP model that identifies the emotion expressed in a given social
media text.
- Preprocess large-scale, real-world text data for sentiment and emotion classification.
- Evaluate and compare different models such as Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and deep
learning approaches.
- Visualize the distribution of emotions and keyword associations.
- Deploy the model using a user-friendly Gradio interface for real-time testing.
3. Flowchart of the Project Workflow
[Insert updated workflow diagram ? typically including stages like Data Collection ? Preprocessing ?
Decoding Emotions Through Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Conversations
Feature Extraction ? Model Training ? Evaluation ? Deployment]
4. Data Description
- Dataset Name: [Example: Emotion Dataset from Twitter, or Kaggle Sentiment140]
- Source: Public repositories like Kaggle or academic datasets
- Type of Data: Textual data from social media
- Records and Features: e.g., 40,000+ tweets with labeled emotions
- Target Variable: Emotion labels (e.g., happy, sad, angry)
- Static or Dynamic: Static snapshot
- Attributes Covered: Tweet content, user ID, timestamp (where applicable)
5. Data Preprocessing
- Removed URLs, mentions, hashtags, and special characters.
- Applied tokenization, lemmatization, and stopword removal.
- Encoded emotion labels.
- Used TF-IDF and word embeddings (e.g., Word2Vec/BERT) for feature representation.
6. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Univariate Analysis:
- Frequency distribution of emotions
- Word clouds per emotion category
Bivariate/Multivariate Analysis:
- Co-occurrence plots for words and emotions
- Emotion trends over time (if timestamps available)
Key Insights:
Decoding Emotions Through Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Conversations
- Certain words strongly correlate with specific emotions.
- Negative sentiments dominate during certain events or timeframes.
7. Feature Engineering
- Created n-gram features and sentiment scores using pre-trained sentiment analyzers.
- Extracted emotion lexicons (e.g., NRC Emotion Lexicon).
- Embedded textual data using TF-IDF and contextual embeddings (e.g., BERT).
8. Model Building
Algorithms Used:
- Logistic Regression
- Random Forest Classifier
- LSTM or BERT-based deep learning models (if implemented)
Model Selection Rationale:
- Classical ML models for explainability
- Deep learning for capturing contextual semantics
Train-Test Split:
- 80% training, 20% testing
Evaluation Metrics:
- Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score
- Confusion Matrix
- ROC-AUC (if binary sentiment is also analyzed)
9. Visualization of Results & Model Insights
Decoding Emotions Through Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Conversations
- Emotion distribution charts
- Confusion matrices to assess classification accuracy
- SHAP plots or attention maps (for model interpretability)
User Testing:
- Developed Gradio-based web interface for users to input a text and see predicted emotion
10. Tools and Technologies Used
- Programming Language: Python 3
- Environment: Google Colab / Jupyter Notebook
- Libraries:
- pandas, numpy for data handling
- nltk, spacy, transformers for NLP
- scikit-learn for classical modeling
- tensorflow or pytorch for deep learning (if used)
- matplotlib, seaborn, wordcloud for visualization
- Gradio for deployment
11. Team Members and Contributions
[List names and responsibilities.]
Clearly mention who worked on:
- Data Collection & Cleaning
- EDA & Visualization
- Feature Engineering
- Model Development
Decoding Emotions Through Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Conversations
- Documentation and Deployment
