Abstract:
In ODIs, World Cups and T-20 matches of various sports like Football, Cricket, Hockey, Basketball and Badminton, fans express their feelings and emotions towards the players by posting their status on social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. By collecting these opinions and feelings of the fans from different mediums, this research study has become more focused on a sentimental analysis of the sport with a total of 3759 comments related to Football (both national, international), Cricket, Hockey and Badminton. Since sports related opinions have been taken up in Bengali, global vector (glove) word embedding techniques are used for pre-processing which can retrieve word meanings and synthetic information. It also specializes in creating word vectors, including the structure of word embedding infrastructure, and provides a special advantage over statistics. Three models have been proposed in our study, one of which is a hybrid model of CNN-LSTM. In the proposed CNN-LSTM model, the CNN model is used to quote various features from word embedding that reflect short-term sentiment dependence while creating long-term sentimental relationships between LSTM words. In comparison to the hybrid model, two single models CNN and LSTM are proposed in five categories (i.e. Positive, Negative, Neutral, Happy, Sad). The sport's dataset integrates the CNN-LSTM hybrid model with the glove embedding layer, providing 97.45% accuracy. Lastly, the LSTM-CNN hybrid models perform comparatively better, realizing the feeling of the fans' comments.
