Shivamani
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S. SHIVAMANI (21C31A0558)
Accredited by NBA (UG-CE, ECE, ME, CSE, EEE Programs) & NAAC A+ Grade
(Affiliated by JNTU Hyderabad and Approved by the AICTE, New Delhi)
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BALAJI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
Accredited by NBA (UG-CE, ECE, ME, CSE, EEE Programs) & NAAC A+ Grade
(Affiliated by JNTU Hyderabad and Approved by the AICTE, New Delhi)
CERTIFICATE
Supervisor HoD
Mr. G. SHIVA PRASAD Dr. BANDI KRISHNA
Assistant Professor, CSE Head of Department-CSE
Project Coordinator
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I thank my HoD Dr. BANDI KRISHNA of his effort and guidance and all senior faculty
members for their help during my course. Thanks to programmers and non-teaching staff of
CSE Department of my college.
I heartily thank my Principal Dr. V. S. HARIHARAN for giving this great Opportunity
and his support to complete my project.
I would like to appreciate the guidance given by project coordinator Dr. V. RAMDAS as
well as the panels especially in my project presentation that has improved my presentation skills
by their comment and tips.
Finally Special thanks to my parents for their support and encouragement throughout life
and during the course. Thanks to all my friends and well-wishers for their constant support.
S. SHIVAMANI (21C31A0558)
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ABSTRACT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Aim 1
1.2 Objective 2
2. Literature Survey 3
3. System Analysis 4
3.1 Methodology 4
3.2 Modules of the System 9
3.2.1 User Interface Module 9
3.2.2 Text Preprocessing & 10
Feature Extraction Module
3.2.3 Sentiment Analysis Module 12
3.2.4 Sentiment Analysis Interface Module 13
3.3 Existing System 14
3.4 Proposed System 14
4. Feasibility Study 15
4.1 Technical Feasibility 15
4.2 Operational Feasibility 16
4.3 Economical Feasibility 16
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5.2 Libraries 21
6. System Design 23
6.1 UML Diagrams 23
6.1.1 Use Case Diagram 24
6.1.2 Class Diagram 25
6.1.3 Sequence Diagram 26
6.1.4 Activity Diagram 27
7. Implementation 28
7.1 Code 29
7.2 Screenshots 38
8. Conclusion 44
9. References 45
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Aim
Social media platforms have become a central hub for communication, opinion sharing,
and information dissemination. With millions of posts made daily, the ability to analyze and
understand public sentiment has become invaluable for businesses, governments, and
organizations. Understanding the emotional tone behind social media posts allows for better
decision-making, targeted marketing, and timely responses to public opinion. However,
manually analyzing vast amounts of user-generated content is impractical, necessitating the
development of automated systems for sentiment analysis.
This project aims to address this challenge by developing an automated Social Media
Opinion Analysis System using Natural Language Processing (NLP). The system leverages
machine learning techniques, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, to
classify social media posts into three sentiment categories: Positive, Negative, and Neutral. The
model is trained on a robust dataset, Sentiment, containing millions of labeled tweets, enabling
it to accurately predict sentiment based on the content of social media posts. The project is
implemented using Python and various libraries such as TensorFlow and Keras for building the
model, as well as Flask for creating a web-based interface where users can input social media
posts and receive sentiment analysis results.
The significance of this project lies in its potential to automate the sentiment analysis
process, making it faster and more efficient. Traditional methods of analyzing sentiment often
require extensive human intervention, which can be both time-consuming and subjective. By
leveraging machine learning, this system can analyze large volumes of data in real time,
offering businesses and organizations valuable insights into public opinion with greater
accuracy and reliability. The project also integrates a user-friendly web interface, allowing
anyone to easily submit text for sentiment analysis.
As the reliance on social media grows, the ability to understand the sentiment of public
discourse becomes increasingly important. This system can assist in various applications, such
as product feedback analysis, social media monitoring, and crisis management. In summary,
this project represents a step forward in the field of NLP by developing an automated system
for sentiment analysis, offering significant benefits in terms of operational efficiency and
decision-making.
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1.2 Objective
Sentiment Classification (Positive, Negative, or Neutral):
The system is built to classify the sentiment of social media posts, such as tweets or
captions, into three categories: Positive, Negative, and Neutral. By analyzing the text and
identifying emotional tones, it helps in understanding public opinion on various topics. This
classification aids businesses, marketers, and organizations in making data-driven decisions
based on the sentiment trends of social media posts.
Automated Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Posts:
The project focuses on automating the process of sentiment analysis, which traditionally
required manual efforts. By leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning
techniques, it analyzes social media content at scale without the need for human intervention,
thus enabling real-time sentiment monitoring. This system is well-suited for analyzing user-
generated content on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, offering valuable
insights into public perception.
The project achieves several key objectives:
Sentiment Detection and Analysis:
The system reliably differentiates between positive, negative, and neutral sentiments
expressed in social media posts, providing valuable insights for brands, organizations,
and social media analysts.
Process Automation:
Automating sentiment analysis reduces the reliance on manual review, streamlines
operations, and offers real-time sentiment feedback, making it possible to analyze large
volumes of data efficiently.
Real-time Monitoring and Feedback:
By analyzing posts in real-time, the system provides instant feedback to users, enabling
businesses and organizations to monitor trends and adjust their strategies accordingly.
In conclusion, this project addresses the growing need for sentiment analysis in
the digital age by utilizing advanced machine learning and NLP techniques. It enables
accurate, efficient, and scalable analysis of social media content, offering actionable
insights to enhance decision-making, marketing strategies, and public relations efforts.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Sentiment analysis has evolved significantly, progressing from rule-based systems to
machine learning, and now to deep learning methods. Early systems relied on sentiment
lexicons—predefined lists of positive and negative words—to identify the polarity of text.
While simple and interpretable, these rule-based approaches struggled with context, sarcasm,
slang, and negations.
With the rise of labeled datasets, machine learning methods such as Naive Bayes, Support
Vector Machines (SVM), and Logistic Regression became popular. These models learned from
data and used statistical features like Bag-of-Words or TF-IDF. However, they still lacked the
ability to capture semantic meaning or word order effectively.
Deep learning revolutionized sentiment analysis by introducing Recurrent Neural
Networks (RNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, which are well-suited for
sequence data. LSTMs are capable of retaining contextual information across sentences,
making them ideal for analyzing the informal and brief nature of social media text. The use of
pre-trained embeddings such as Word2Vec, GloVe, and more recently, transformer-based
models like BERT, has further enhanced performance by capturing semantic and syntactic
relationships between words.
One of the most widely used datasets in this domain is the Sentiment dataset, which
contains 1.6 million labeled tweets and is extensively used to train and evaluate sentiment
classification models for Twitter data.
Recent studies focus on solving real-world challenges in sentiment analysis, such as
incorporating emoji sentiment (e.g., 😊 indicating positivity), handling phrase negations like
“not bad,” and detecting sarcasm—where literal and intended meanings differ. Advanced
models now integrate these complexities using deep learning and attention mechanisms.
In our work, we built upon these research insights by customizing our text preprocessing
to include emoji normalization, negation handling, and informal word corrections. We
experimented with both rule-based (VADER) and deep learning models (LSTM) using pre-
trained embeddings to ensure context-aware sentiment detection. These enhancements align
our project with current advancements in NLP for social media opinion mining.
3. SYSTEM ANALYSIS
3.1 Methodology
The methodology adopted for this project encompasses a comprehensive pipeline from
data acquisition to deployment, carefully structured to ensure accurate sentiment analysis of
social media content using deep learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.
The main stages involved in the methodology are:
1. Data Collection and Preprocessing:
The model is trained using a loss function (e.g., categorical crossentropy) and an optimization
algorithm (e.g., Adam optimizer) to minimize errors during training.
3.1 Model Selection
A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based deep learning model was selected due to its
strength in handling sequential data and capturing long-term dependencies. Unlike traditional
feedforward networks, LSTMs are designed to retain context, which is essential in sentiment
classification.
3.2 Architecture Overview
The architecture includes the following layers:
Embedding Layer: Converts each tokenized word into its corresponding dense vector
(learned during training or initialized from pre-trained embeddings).
LSTM Layer: Processes sequences of embeddings, learning contextual dependencies
between words.
Dropout Layer: Helps reduce overfitting by randomly deactivating a fraction of
neurons during training.
Dense Output Layer: A fully connected layer with softmax activation is used to predict
the final sentiment class (Positive, Negative, or Neutral).
3.3 Training Configuration
Loss Function: categorical_crossentropy was used to handle multiclass classification.
Optimizer: Adam optimizer was chosen for its efficiency and adaptive learning rate
capabilities.
Batch Size & Epochs: The model was trained using a batch size of 64 and up to 10–
20 epochs, depending on validation performance.
4. Model Evaluation:
Once the sentiment analysis model has been trained on the labeled data, it is essential
to evaluate how well it performs on new, unseen content. This is done to ensure that the model
doesn't just memorize training data but can generalize effectively to real-world social media
posts.
To do this, a separate set of posts, not used during training, is used for testing. This test
data simulates how the system would behave when deployed and interacting with real users.
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By analyzing the model’s performance on this data, we can measure its accuracy and identify
areas where it may need improvement.
Assessing the Model’s Accuracy
The main goal of the evaluation is to understand how accurately the model predicts
sentiments — whether a given post is positive, negative, or neutral. The total number of correct
predictions is compared to the total number of posts in the test set. A high number of correct
predictions indicates that the model has learned well and can be trusted to analyze social media
content.
However, accuracy alone doesn't tell the whole story. Sometimes, the model might do
well on certain types of posts (for example, clear positive messages) but may struggle with
more subtle or ambiguous ones (like sarcastic or neutral statements). Therefore, it's important
to look deeper.
5. System Deployment
After successful model training and evaluation, the system was deployed as a web
application using the Flask framework. The deployment involved integrating the trained model
with a user-friendly frontend that allows real-time sentiment predictions.
Web Interface Features:
Text Input: Users can enter any sentence or post for analysis.
Backend Processing: The text is preprocessed and passed to the LSTM model in the
backend.
Sentiment Output: The predicted sentiment (Positive, Negative, or Neutral) is
displayed along with a confidence score.
Emoji Display: To enhance user experience, an appropriate emoji is displayed based
The application is responsive and designed to work across devices, making sentiment
analysis accessible to end users in a simple and intuitive way.
Positive, 😞 for Negative, 😐 for Neutral) to make the results more engaging.
Technologies Used:
Flask
HTML5
CSS
Interaction with Other Modules: The User Interface communicates with the Sentiment Analysis
Module via HTTP requests. Text input from the UI is sent to the backend for analysis, and the
sentiment prediction along with the confidence score is returned to the UI for display.
4. FEASIBILITY STUDY
The feasibility study for the proposed Social Media Opinion Analysis using NLP
project involves evaluating various factors that determine the practicality and success of the
system. These factors include technical feasibility, operational feasibility, economic feasibility,
and legal and ethical feasibility.
4.1 Technical Feasibility
The technical feasibility of this project is strong, as the required technologies and
frameworks for building and deploying the sentiment analysis system are readily available and
well-supported. The project uses a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, a state-of-the-
art approach in natural language processing, which excels in handling long-term dependencies
in text, making it ideal for analyzing the context and sentiment of social media posts. Python,
along with libraries such as TensorFlow, Keras, and NLTK, provides a comprehensive
environment for building deep learning models and handling textual data. Additionally, the
Flask web framework ensures smooth integration of the model with a user-friendly interface
for real-time analysis.
The project's integration of emoji analysis, contextual sentiment detection, and real-
time processing is technically feasible as there are pre-trained models and datasets that handle
these aspects. Existing datasets like Sentiment offer a reliable foundation for training the
sentiment analysis model. Moreover, the system's real-time capabilities are enabled by Flask’s
lightweight nature, which facilitates the smooth processing of data and response generation for
users. Thus, the required technical expertise and tools are available to develop and deploy the
system effectively.
The main purpose for preparing this document is to give a general insight into the
analysis and requirements of the existing system or situation and for determining the operating
characteristics of the system. This document plays a vital role in the development life cycle and
it describes the complete requirement of the system. It is meant for use by the developers and
will be the basic during testing phase. Any changes made to the requirements in the future will
have to go through formal changes and approval process.
The Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document outlines the functional and non-
functional requirements, performance requirements, software requirements, and libraries
needed to build the Social Media Opinion Analysis using NLP system. This section provides
detailed information about the system's functional behavior, user requirements, performance
expectations, and the software components used to build the system.
Data Storage: The system should record historical sentiment analysis results and allow
users to review previous inputs.
Model Accuracy:
o The sentiment analysis model should achieve an accuracy rate of at least 85%
in classifying posts as positive, negative, or neutral.
o The model should be fine-tuned regularly to improve accuracy and handle
domain-specific social media language or emerging trends.
Deployment Tools:
o Docker: For containerizing the application and ensuring consistent deployment
environments.
o AWS/GCP: For cloud hosting and deploying the web application and models at
scale.
o Heroku: For initial deployment during development and testing phases.
Version Control:
o Git: For source code management and version control.
5.2 Libraries
To develop the Social Media Opinion Analysis using NLP system, a range of powerful
and open-source Python libraries have been utilized. These libraries provide essential
functionalities that support everything from data preprocessing and natural language
processing to model training, deployment, and advanced analysis. Below is a detailed overview
of each key library used in the system:
1. TensorFlow: TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework developed by
Google. It serves as the backbone for constructing and training the deep learning model used
in this project. TensorFlow provides powerful tools for building neural networks and efficiently
handling large-scale computations, making it ideal for training the LSTM-based sentiment
analysis model on the Sentiment140 dataset.
2. Keras: Keras is a high-level neural network API that runs on top of TensorFlow. It simplifies
the model building process with an easy-to-use interface, allowing developers to define,
compile, and train deep learning models quickly. Keras is used to build the LSTM architecture
in this project, manage model layers, and streamline the training and evaluation process.
3. NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit): NLTK is a leading library for natural language
processing in Python. It is used in the preprocessing phase for tasks such as tokenization, stop
word removal, stemming, lemmatization, and text normalization. These operations are crucial
for cleaning raw social media text data and making it suitable for input into the deep learning
model.
4. Scikit-learn: Scikit-learn provides various tools for data preprocessing, model selection,
and evaluation. In this project, it is mainly used for calculating performance metrics such as
accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. It also assists in generating the confusion matrix,
which helps visualize the performance of the sentiment classifier.
5. Flask: Flask is a lightweight Python web framework used to create the web interface for the
sentiment analysis system. It allows users to input text data through a simple web form and
receive real-time sentiment predictions. Flask routes the user input to the backend, processes
the request, and displays the predicted sentiment and confidence score.
6. Pandas: Pandas is a powerful data analysis library that provides flexible data structures like
Series and DataFrames. It is used to manage and manipulate datasets, store user inputs and
sentiment results, and prepare data for training or export. Its ease of use makes it ideal for
handling structured information in the system.
7. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library): OpenCV is a library designed for real-
time computer vision tasks. In the context of this project, OpenCV can be optionally used for
processing visual elements like emojis or images that are included in social media posts.
Analyzing visual features alongside text can enhance the accuracy of sentiment detection,
especially when emojis convey emotional tone that may contradict or complement the written
text.
8. SpaCy: SpaCy is an advanced NLP library optimized for performance and production use.
While NLTK handles basic preprocessing, SpaCy is useful for more complex NLP tasks such
as named entity recognition (NER), part-of-speech tagging, and dependency parsing. It can
also be employed for more nuanced sentiment analysis scenarios where syntactic structure and
entity context are essential for understanding meaning.
By combining these libraries, the system is capable of performing end-to-end sentiment
analysis on social media text in a robust, scalable, and efficient manner. Each library
contributes to a specific part of the development pipeline, ensuring that the system remains
modular, maintainable, and easy to upgrade for future enhancements or use cases.
6. SYSTEM DESIGN
System design is a critical phase that outlines how various components of the
application interact and function together. It provides a structured blueprint for implementation,
ensuring that the system meets both functional and non-functional requirements. The goal of
this phase is to create a scalable, maintainable, and efficient system capable of accurately
analyzing sentiments from social media posts.
The system is composed of multiple layers such as:
Presentation Layer: Frontend (Flask-based web interface)
Logic Layer: Python backend with pre-trained LSTM model for sentiment prediction
Data Layer: Tokenizer, embedded weights, model files, and input preprocessing
A UML diagram is a diagram based on the Unified Modelling Language with the
purpose of visually representing a system along with its main actors, roles, actions, artifacts,
or classes. UML provides a modern approach to modeling and documenting software systems.
It is one of the most popular and effective business and software process modeling techniques.
Since UML is based on diagrammatic representations, it allows developers to quickly identify
design flaws or inefficiencies. In our project, UML diagrams have been used to represent the
logical structure, system behavior, and interaction flow between components involved in Social
Media Sentiment Analysis.
7. IMPLEMENTATION
The implementation phase involves translating the design into actual code. For the Social
Media Opinion Analysis using NLP project, the system has been developed using Python with
the Flask web framework for the backend, and HTML/CSS for the frontend. The core of the
system is an LSTM-based deep learning model trained on the Sentiment140 dataset to classify
sentiments into Positive, Negative, or Neutral.
The implementation includes:
Text preprocessing (cleaning, tokenizing, padding)
Model loading and inference
Confidence score calculation
Emoji and sentiment display
Web interface with input form and output section
7.1 Code
The entire system has been modularized for clarity and maintainability. Key
components include:
7.1.1. app.py (Main Flask Application)
Handles routing and interaction between frontend and backend.
python
from flask import Flask, request, render_template
import pickle
import numpy as np
import os
from tensorflow.keras.models import load_model
from preprocess import clean_text, prepare_text
from datetime import datetime
model = load_model('sentiment_analysis.keras')
with open('tokenizer.pkl', 'rb') as f:
tokenizer = pickle.load(f)
results_dir = "results"
os.makedirs(results_dir, exist_ok=True)
@app.route("/", methods=["GET"])
def home():
return render_template("index.html")
@app.route("/result", methods=["POST"])
def result():
post = request.form["post"]
cleaned = clean_text(post)
padded = prepare_text(cleaned, tokenizer)
prediction = model.predict(padded)[0]
sentiment_label = np.argmax(prediction)
confidence = round(float(np.max(prediction)) * 100, 2)
if sentiment_label == 0:
sentiment = "Negative 😞"
elif sentiment_label == 1:
sentiment = "Neutral 😐"
else:
sentiment = "Positive 😊"
timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
filename = os.path.join(results_dir, f"result_{timestamp}.txt")
7.1.2. preprocess.py
Handles clean the text, remove URLs, mentions, and non-alphabetical characters
import re
import numpy as np
from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.sequence import pad_sequences
return text.strip()
return padded
# Constants
MAX_LEN = 60
VOCAB_SIZE = 15000
EMBEDDING_DIM = 128
# Load data
df = pd.read_csv("archive/sentiment_train.csv")
df['text'] = df['text'].astype(str).str.lower()
df['label'] = df['label'].astype(int)
# Tokenization
tokenizer = Tokenizer(num_words=VOCAB_SIZE, oov_token="<OOV>")
tokenizer.fit_on_texts(df['text'])
sequences = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences(df['text'])
padded = pad_sequences(sequences, maxlen=MAX_LEN, padding="post", truncating="post")
X = padded
y = pd.get_dummies(df['label']).values
# Build model
model = Sequential([
Embedding(VOCAB_SIZE, EMBEDDING_DIM, input_length=MAX_LEN),
Bidirectional(LSTM(64, return_sequences=True)),
Dropout(0.3),
Bidirectional(LSTM(32)),
Dropout(0.3),
Dense(64, activation='relu'),
Dropout(0.3),
Dense(3, activation='softmax')
])
7.1.4. templates
4.1 templates/index.html (Frontend UI)
html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Social Media Opinion Analyzer</title>
<style>
body {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
background: url('https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/realistic-social-media-elements-
background_79603-1521.jpg') no-repeat center center;
background-size: cover;
padding: 40px;
}
.container {
max-width: 600px;
margin: auto;
background: #fff;
padding: 30px;
border-radius: 15px;
box-shadow: 0 0 15px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
textarea {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 16px;
border-radius: 8px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
resize: none;
margin-bottom: 15px;
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}
button {
padding: 10px 25px;
background-color: #f8b500;
border: none;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
border-radius: 5px;
cursor: pointer;
}
button:hover {
background-color: #e0a800;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h2>📱 Social Media Opinion Analyzer</h2>
<form method="POST" action="{{ url_for('result') }}">
<label for="post">Enter your post or caption:</label><br>
<textarea name="post" required></textarea><br>
<button type="submit">Analyze</button>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
4.2 templates/result.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Analysis Result</title>
<style>
body {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
background: url('https://img.freepik.com/free-vector/realistic-social-media-elements-
background_79603-1521.jpg') no-repeat center center;
background-size: cover;
padding: 40px;
}
.container {
max-width: 600px;
margin: auto;
background: #fff;
padding: 30px;
border-radius: 15px;
box-shadow: 0 0 15px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
text-align: center;
}
.result {
font-size: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
}
.back-button {
margin-top: 20px;
}
.back-button a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #f8b500;
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font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h2>📝 Analysis Result</h2>
<div class="result">
<p><strong>Post:</strong> {{ post }}</p>
<p><strong>Sentiment:</strong> {{ sentiment }}</p>
<p><strong>Confidence:</strong> {{ confidence }}%</p>
</div>
<div class="back-button">
<a href="{{ url_for('home') }}">🔙 Analyze Another Post</a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
7.2 Screenshots
To provide a clear understanding of how the Social Media Opinion Analysis system
operates in a real-world environment, this section presents several key screenshots from the
web application. These screenshots showcase various stages of user interaction, including data
input, result generation, and error handling. Each stage highlights the user-friendly interface
and real-time sentiment analysis functionality.
The initial input page is the landing screen of the web application where users begin their
interaction with the system. It features a clean and simple layout that is intuitive even for first-
time users.
At the center of the page, there is a text input field where users can type or paste a social
media post (such as a tweet or caption) they wish to analyze.
Below the input field, there is a prominent “Analyze” button. When clicked, it sends
the entered text to the backend system, which performs sentiment analysis using the
trained deep learning model.
This page ensures that users can quickly and easily submit their posts without any distractions
or unnecessary steps.
After getting the result if we want to text another tweet then click on the Analyze
Another Post and then enter into initial input page and check the remaining tweets.
To ensure smooth operation and a good user experience, the system includes proper error
handling mechanisms. If a user submits the form without entering any text or with content that
is too short to analyze meaningfully, the application responds with an appropriate validation
message.
A prompt appears, clearly instructing the user to "Please fill in this field" or a similar
message that helps them understand what went wrong.
This validation ensures that only meaningful text is sent for analysis, improving both
performance and accuracy of the results.
This error handling feature prevents system misuse and guides users to correct their input
without confusion.
These screenshots illustrate how the system transitions smoothly from input to analysis to result
display, with built-in safeguards for invalid input. The overall user experience is designed to
be seamless, responsive, and informative — making it suitable for both casual users and
professionals monitoring sentiment trends in real time.
Advantages
Real-time sentiment prediction
Trained on large social media dataset
Accurate classification using deep learning
Easy-to-use interface for public use
Limitations
Can misinterpret sarcasm or complex negations
Dependent on the dataset quality
Not multilingual (currently supports English only)
Future Enhancements
Include multilingual support (Hindi, Telugu, etc.)
Add emoji-based sentiment detection
Use transformer-based models like BERT for better accuracy
Analyze images or voice data for sentimen
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8. CONCLUSION
This project, Social Media Opinion Analysis using NLP, successfully demonstrates the
use of deep learning techniques for analyzing sentiment in social media content. By leveraging
an LSTM-based neural network trained on real-world datasets like Sentiment, the system is
capable of understanding and classifying complex user expressions into emotional categories.
The intuitive web interface ensures that end-users can access the sentiment analysis tool
effortlessly. The model provides both sentiment labels and confidence scores, offering a
transparent view of prediction certainty. The solution can be extended further to analyze bulk
social media data for brand monitoring, political opinion mining, mental health tracking, and
more.
Overall, the project bridges Natural Language Processing, deep learning, and web development
to create a practical and impactful application
9. REFERENCES
Below is a list of resources and references used during the development of this project:
1. Sentiment140 Dataset – Kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/kazanova/sentiment140
2. Keras Doc LSTM Layers https://keras.io/api/layers/recurrent_layers/lstm/
3. Flask Documentation https://flask.palletsprojects.com/
4. PyTorch Documentation https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/index.html
5. Goldberg, Y. (2016). A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language
Processing. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
6. Jurafsky, D., & Martin, J. H. (2020). Speech and Language Processing (3rd Edition
Draft) https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
7. IMDbMovieReviewsDatasetKaggle
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lakshmi25npathi/imdb-dataset-of-50k-movie-
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P.Nagaraju7
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BTech Student, Department of CSE, Balaji Institute of Technology and Science, Laknepally,
Warangal, India
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Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Balaji Institute of Technology & Science, Laknepally, Warangal,
India
ABSTRACT
Sentiment analysis on social media contributes towards public opinion perception, guiding
market strategies, political commentary, as well as buyer sentiment. Attitudes and brand loyalty
are crafted by social networking sites like Facebook and "X" (Twitter), and having sentiment
analysis on these is instrumental in tracking directions. The present study analyzes over 1000
newscast-related posts for the purpose of identifying sentiment direction. Social networking not
only facilitates communication but affects user behavior too. Sentiment analysis is vital for
organizations, policymakers, and businesses to take decisions based on facts, improve customer
engagement, and react to public matters effectively. With user-generated content expanding
exponentially, sentiment analysis has become a must to make effective use of the digital world.
1. INTRODUCTION
In the context of contemporary socio-technical systems, social media has transformed
profoundly in the means of communication and expression of feeling and sharing information.
The social media platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube with
their millions of active users produce massive amounts of content that captures emotions,
attitudes, and opinions. These sentiments are crucial in shaping public opinion, brand image, and
buying behavior.
The volume of data produced every day per user, however, has accelerated to such an extent,
that it poses a challenge to individuals or businesses attempting to gain insights from it.
Sentiment Analysis, which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language
Processing (NLP), solves this problem through automated extraction and sorting of feelings into
positive, negative, or neutral. It is now possible for researchers, business people, and
policymakers to effectively and systematically make sense of sentiments, trends, and public
opinion and make informed decisions.
The goal of the Sentiment Analysis for Social Media project is to create an intelligent
software system which can analyze more than 1,000 posts from social media news accounts.
Given the fact that public opinion and company branding as well as the behavior of customers
are formed through online discourse, an adequate feeling classifier is needed. So this is the
approach towards satisfying demand for powerful machine learning sentiment analysis
systems[1-25].
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
2.1 Sentiment Analysis Overview:
Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is among the key areas of research due to the social
media witnessing heightened growth. Earlier stages utilized rule-based methods but were weak at
handling slang, colloquialisms, and culture. Accuracy and flexibility increased with machine
learning and deep learning in subsequent stages.
Study: Ali & Kabir (2024) compared deep learning methods for sentiment classification. Strengths:
Study: This systematic literature review evaluated large-scale social media sentiment analysis in
2023.
Disadvantages: Working with unstructured data in real time constantly proves difficult.
Study: Kapur & Harikrishnan compared lexicon-based, machine learning, and deep learning
techniques.
Advantages: Lasts very detailed insight through sentiment analysis of product or service features.
Limitations: Quite complicated to develop deep aspect lexicons and map the sentiments accurately.
3. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Massive amounts of user-generated content are created every day, thanks to the rapid growth
of social media. Understanding public sentiment becomes critical for businesses, organizations,
and policymakers. In fact, it is a tough task as analyzing sentiments of social media posts gets
complicated by informal language, slangs, abbreviations, and speaker sarcasms along with
cultural quirks. Active rule-based methods fail to attend to these complexities, and on the other
hand, machine learning methods require extensive labeled datasets.
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This specific study intends to develop a fast and accurate system of Sentiment Analysis
specific to Social Media that will interpret better what users feel. It builds upon Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to detect emotional states considering
context variation to deliver greater insight for decision making. The solution will facilitate brand
perception monitoring, customer engagement in businesses, and improve marketing without
compromising ambiguity and scalability challenges in sentiment data.
4. EXISTING SYSTEM
The existing sentiment analysis systems on social media depend on:
1. Lexicon-Based Approaches: It ignores the slang and context in and even while you use
predefined sentiment dictionaries.These can be often lacking deep contextual knowledge,
machine learning models include SVM, naïve bayes, and random forest.
2. By using the LSTMs and CNNs but find a lot of difficulties in sarcasm and long-range
dependencies challenging.
3. Even using the basic Deep Learning Models which are giving the incorrect results.
Drawbacks including bad performance on big data and not able to include more thorough
background in sophisticated sentences causes a strong reliance on feature engineering.
5. METHODOLOGY
By considering the drawbacks of the project we propose a sentiment analysis model
which is used to employing transformer-based architectures, especially here by dealing with
BERT and its variants, we can overcome these restrictions. There are some suggested
arrangementlikeContextual word representation with pre-trained embeddings (BERT, RoBERTa)
Use fine-tuning on datasets particular to the domain which is used to improve performance. It
can be possible when using the attention mechanisms to grasp word dependencies.
In the project methodology there exists of a various phases which are as follows:
1. Data Collection:To extract tweets, Facebook comments, and other social media posts using
2. Preprocessing: After the extraction of data remove stopwords, punctuation, emojis, and
perform stemming/lemmatization these steps are mainly used.
3. Feature Extraction:Then convert the text into numerical vectors by using TF-IDF,
Word2Vec, and BERT embeddings.
4. Model Training: Train the model which is from the deep learning includes (LSTM, BERT,
RoBERTa) on labeled sentiment datasets.
5. Evaluation:Calculate the accuracy from the training phase, precision, recall, and F1-score.
6. FEATURE EXTRACTION
1. TF-IDF (Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency): It represents the text data
numerically.
We investigate three varying sentiment classification models within this project, each having
its own pros and cons:
CNN is effective in feature extraction from text, especially n-gram features, which can be
used to identify sentiment-oriented words and phrases. Yet CNN is missing a sense of sequential
relations between words, which will restrict its performance for sentiment classification.
BERT is a cutting-edge deep learning model that learns deep contextualized representations
of text. BERT is different from other models in that it captures the meaning of words in relation
to the context surrounding them, resulting in extremely accurate sentiment predictions.
Training Procedure
To make sure the models are running at their best, we adhere to a systematic training
process:
Dataset: The models are trained with well-established sentiment datasets such as IMDB reviews,
custom-labeled datasets, and Twitter Sentiment140.
Optimizer: We apply the Adam optimizer with a learning rate of 0.0001 to make learning
efficient and update weights properly.
Loss Function: We use the categorical cross-entropy loss function to compute the
discrepancy between predicted and actual sentiment labels.
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Hyperparameter Tuning: We tune parameters like batch size, number of epochs for training,
and dropout rate to enhance the performance of the model and avoid overfitting.
Using these methods, we hope to build a sentiment analysis system that accurately
classifies posts on social media while overcoming the shortcomings of current models.
7. PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
Hardware: GPU system (NVIDIA RTX 3060 or comparable) Software:
8. IMPLEMENTATION
The project is with support of Python with deep learning libraries In order to optimize training,
the models were trained on this system.
Steps to be followed in the process of Implementation:
1. Data Preprocessing
2. Feature Extraction
3. Model Training and Evaluation
4.Result
1. Data Preprocessing
Preprocessing of text data were taken out before training themodel with the following:
Removing stopwords, punctuation, and emojis
Words like the, is, and were were removed because they don't add any sentiment.Punctuation and
emojis were removed to only keep words that have meaning.1.1.Tokenization
Text was separated into individual words or subwords for easy processing. In
BERT, WordPiece tokenizer was utilized for unknown words.
1.2.Stemming and Lemmatization
Stemming converted words to base form (e.g., running → run).
Lemmatization changed words to dictionary form (e.g., better → good).
Example:
Before preprocessing:
"This film was incredible!!! ???????? But the conclusion was disappointing." After
preprocessing:
"movie incredible but end disappoint"
2. Feature Extraction
To transform text into a form that can be processed by the model, various feature extraction
methods were employed:
2.1. TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency): Weighted words according to their
significance.
2.2. Word2Vec: Trapped word relationships by transforming them into numerical
vectors.2.3.BERT Embeddings: Offered more profound comprehension by examining words
accordingto the context surrounding them.
Example of Contextual Understanding:
"I am heading to the bank." → (Bank as a financial institution) "I
am sitting on the river bank." → (Bank as a river shore)
3. Model Training and Evaluation
The below dataset is taken into consideration as follows as The
models were trained and tested on three datasets:
1. IMDB Movie Reviews (general sentiment classification)
2. Twitter Sentiment140 (social media sentiment analysis)
3. Custom-labeled datasets (for specific domains)
3.1. Training Process
The followingdataset classified is into 80% training and 20% testing.
The models were trained with Adam optimizer and a learning rate of 0.0001. The
loss function utilized was Categorical Cross-Entropy.
The models were trained from 10 to 15 epochs, with the hyperparameters being optimizedfor
enhanced performance.
4. Result
After training the models, their performance was evaluated based on accuracy, precision, recall,
and F1-score. The results are summarized in the table below:
9. FUTURE SCOPE
The future application scope of sentiment analysis and NLP reaches across some of the main
areas of future innovation and advancement. One exciting area is the scaling of the model across
different languages via multilingual BERT, whereby the sentiment analysis models can
recognize and process text across various languages at high levels of accuracy, allowing them to
better fit in foreign markets. Another thrilling breakthrough is enhancing sarcasm detection by
multimodal learning, blending text and image analysis to better recognize sarcasm. This comes
in handy during sentiment analysis in social media, as sarcasm distorts the textual meaning. The
creation of an in-real-time dashboard for the analysis of sentiment trends also can give
businesspersons and researchers timely insights into people's opinion so that they may respond
appropriately to the growing trends. In addition, the incorporation of business intelligence
platforms for market analysis provides enriched data-driven decision-making through the
correlation of sentiment analysis with financial and customer information. These technologies
will significantly enhance the efficiency and precision of sentiment analysis applications in many
industries.
10. CONCLUSION
This work showcases a state-of-the-art sentiment analysis technique utilizing deep learning
and transformer models. By overcoming the drawback of conventional models, our system with
the new design has high precision and stability in opinion classification on social media.
Sentiment analysis will be further improved by future AI and NLP developments to support
improved decision-making in various industries.
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