Sentiment analysis on the Union's Budget 2023: An evaluation based on Youtube comments

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Sentiment analysis, Web 2.0, social media, Youtube videos, Union Budgets, India, Mozdeh software

Abstract

Sentiment analysis is the process or channel to extract a dataset from social media and inquire about the opinions of the comments either positive or negative aspects.  The study has been carried out with the aim of understanding the user’s point of view on the union budget 2023-24. It is limited to a total of 47057 comments that have been extracted within the time period by 34,323 authors in 332 different YouTube channels. The comments were evaluated by using Mozdeh software and it presents the channel with maximum average positive and average negative sentiments on the topic. From the study, it has been highlighted that the interest of common people turns out to be more in a news channel and its content displayed in the videos.

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2023-12-18