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Exploring the Non-Medical impacts of Covid-19 using Natural Language Processing

Version 1 : Received: 30 October 2020 / Approved: 2 November 2020 / Online: 2 November 2020 (15:24:20 CET)

How to cite: Agade, A.; Balpande, S. Exploring the Non-Medical impacts of Covid-19 using Natural Language Processing. Preprints 2020, 2020110056. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202011.0056.v1 Agade, A.; Balpande, S. Exploring the Non-Medical impacts of Covid-19 using Natural Language Processing. Preprints 2020, 2020110056. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202011.0056.v1

Abstract

Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic has resulted into massive damage to various platforms of global economy which has caused disruption to human livelihood. Natural Language Processing has been extensively used in different organizations to categorize sentiments, perform recommendation, summarizing information and topic modelling. This research aims to understand the non-medical impact of COVID-19 on global economy by leveraging the natural language processing methodology. This methodology comprises of text classification which includes topic modelling on unstructured COVID-19 media articles dataset provided by Anacode. Like other Natural Language Processing algorithms, Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has been proposed to classify the media articles dataset in order to analyze COVID-19 pandemic impacts in the different sectors of global economy. Model Accuracy was examined based on the coherence and perplexity score which came out to be 0.51 and -10.90 using LDA algorithm. Both the LDA and NMF algorithm identified similar prevalent topics that was impacted by COVID-19 pandemic in multiple sectors of economy. Through intertopic distance map visualization produced by LDA algorithm, it can be reciprocated that general industries which includes children schooling, parental care, and family gatherings had the major impact followed by business sector and the financial industry.

Keywords

COVID-19; Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Topic Modelling; Text Classification; Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA); Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory

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