Sentiment Analysis Of Social Media Data Using Deep Learning Techniques

Abstract

The rapid growth of social media platforms has generated massive volumes of unstructured textual data containing valuable information about public opinions and sentiments. Extracting meaningful insights from this data has become increasingly important for decision-making in various domains, including business, politics, and social analysis. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of deep learning techniques for sentiment analysis of social media data, focusing on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and a hybrid CNN-LSTM model. A quantitative experimental approach is employed, where datasets are preprocessed through text cleaning, tokenization, and feature representation using word embeddings. The models are trained and evaluated using standard performance metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. The results indicate that all models perform effectively in sentiment classification tasks, with the hybrid CNN-LSTM model achieving the highest performance due to its ability to capture both local textual features and long-term contextual dependencies. This demonstrates that combining CNN and LSTM architectures enhances classification accuracy compared to individual models. Furthermore, the findings confirm that deep learning approaches are more robust in handling the complexity and noisiness of social media data compared to traditional methods. This study contributes to the development of more adaptive and accurate sentiment analysis models and highlights the potential of hybrid deep learning architectures for real-world applications.