نوع مقاله : استخراج از رساله دکتری
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Introduction: Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a vital subfield of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand and interpret human language. The purpose of this research was to identify and understand the sentiments expressed by football fans on Twitter, especially after special events such as the Premier League, and to present a model based on their team identification level.
Methods: The current research is applied research in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical research in terms of its nature. The statistical population included all the tweets generated on Twitter by the fans of the clubs present in the 2021/22 Iranian Premier Football League. Therefore, 5560 tweets were collected after 120 games of the second-half season of the Premier Football League. Special Lexicon and sentiment classifiers based on artificial intelligence (VADER dictionary) were used in a Python environment as a sentiment analysis tool. A Regression model was used to predict fans'' sentiments.
Results: The results of natural language processing showed that positive sentiments were the most expressed emotions by fans. The regression model predicted fans'' sentiments based on factors such as the level of team identification and the result of winning and losing the game, and the conceptual model of the research was confirmed.
Conclusion: This study can be used by media and marketing managers of teams who seek a deeper understanding of the emotional dynamics of football fans.
کلیدواژهها English