Sentiment Analysis of Tweets Using Naïve Bayes, KNN, and Decision Tree

Abstract

Making use of social media for analyzing the perceptions of the masses over a product, event, or a person has gained momentum in recent times. Out of a wide array of social networks, the authors chose Twitter for their analysis as the opinions expressed there are concise and bear a distinctive polarity. Sentiment analysis is an approach to analyze data and retrieve sentiment that it embodies. The paper elaborately discusses three supervised machine learning algorithms—naïve bayes, k-nearest neighbor (KNN), and decision tree—and compares their overall accuracy, precision, as well as recall values, f-measure, number of tweets correctly classified, number of tweets incorrectly classified, and execution time.