Sentiment Analysis using Python
Sentiment analysis is a popular natural language processing (NLP) technique used to determine the emotional tone or sentiment expressed in text. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, there is an abundance of data available for sentiment analysis. In this article, we will explore how to perform sentiment analysis in Python using customer complaints from Twitter and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) models.
Setup
First, we need to set up our environment by installing the required packages. We can install the NLTK package using pip:
```pip install nltk```
Next, we will import the required packages and download the necessary NLTK resources. We will use the 'punkt' package, which provides a pre-trained tokenizer to break text into words and sentences.
```
import nltk
nltk.download('punkt')
```
Data Collection
To collect Twitter data, we will use the Tweepy library. Tweepy is a Python library that provides access to the Twitter API.
To use Tweepy, we need to create a Twitter Developer Account and obtain the required API keys and access tokens. Once we have our credentials, we can use Tweepy to connect to the Twitter API and search for tweets containing customer complaints.
```
import tweepy
# Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = 'your_consumer_key'
consumer_secret = 'your_consumer_secret'
access_token = 'your_access_token'
access_token_secret = 'your_access_token_secret'
# Authenticate
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
# Create API object
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# Search for tweets containing customer complaints
query = 'customer service -filter:retweets'
tweets = api.search_tweets(query, lang='en', count=100)
```
This code will search for 100 tweets containing the phrase 'customer service' in English and exclude retweets. The resulting tweets are stored in the `tweets` variable.
Data Preprocessing
Before we can perform sentiment analysis, we need to preprocess the data. This involves cleaning and transforming the raw text data into a format that can be used by the NLTK models.
We will perform the following preprocessing steps:
1. Remove URLs and mentions
2. Convert text to lowercase
3. Tokenize text into words
4. Remove stopwords and punctuation
```
import re
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from string import punctuation
# Remove URLs and mentions
tweets = [re.sub(r"http\S+", "", tweet.text) for tweet in tweets]
tweets = [re.sub(r"@[^\s]+", "", tweet) for tweet in tweets]
# Convert text to lowercase
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tweets = [tweet.lower() for tweet in tweets]
# Tokenize text into words
tweets = [word_tokenize(tweet) for tweet in tweets]
# Remove stopwords and punctuation
stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english') + list(punctuation))
tweets = [[word for word in tweet if word not in stop_words] for tweet in tweets]
```
Sentiment Analysis
We will use the NLTK's pre-trained SentimentIntensityAnalyzer model to perform sentiment analysis on our preprocessed tweets.
from nltk.sentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
# Initialize SentimentIntensityAnalyzer model
sia = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
# Calculate sentiment scores for each tweet
sentiment_scores = [sia.polarity_scores(" ".join(tweet)) for tweet in tweets]
```
The `polarity_scores()` method returns a dictionary containing four scores: negative, neutral, positive, and compound. The compound score ranges from -1 to 1 and represents an overall sentiment score for the text, where scores closer to -1 indicate negative sentiment, scores closer to 0 indicate neutral sentiment, and scores closer to 1 indicate positive sentiment.
We can use the compound score to classify each tweet as positive, negative, or neutral based on a threshold value. For example, if the compound score is greater than 0.5, we can classify the tweet as positive.
```
Classify tweets based on sentiment score
sentiment_class = ['positive' if score['compound'] > 0.5?
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```
Visualizing Results
To visualize the results, we can use the Matplotlib library to create a bar chart of the sentiment classes.
```
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Count the number of tweets in each sentiment class
pos_tweets = sentiment_class.count('positive')
neg_tweets = sentiment_class.count('negative')
neu_tweets = sentiment_class.count('neutral')
# Create a bar chart of the sentiment classes
plt.bar(['Positive', 'Negative', 'Neutral'], [pos_tweets, neg_tweets, neu_tweets])
plt.title('Sentiment Analysis Results')
plt.xlabel('Sentiment Class')
plt.ylabel('Number of Tweets')
plt.show()
```
This code will create a bar chart of the sentiment classes with the number of tweets in each class.
Conclusion
In this article, we explored how to perform sentiment analysis in Python using customer complaints from Twitter and the NLTK models. We collected data from the Twitter API, preprocessed the data, and used the SentimentIntensityAnalyzer model to classify the tweets into positive, negative, or neutral sentiment classes. Finally, we visualized the results using a bar chart.
Sentiment analysis is a powerful technique for analyzing customer feedback and can provide valuable insights for businesses looking to improve their customer service. With the NLTK models and Python, performing sentiment analysis on social media data is accessible and straightforward.