Recognizing Contextual Polarity in Net neutrality using Sentimental Analysis

Abstract

Net Neutrality is all about the neutrality in the web space. This means, no special favour to be shown to any data in the internet for whatsoever reasons.. Internet's most powerful tool, the Social media has become an essential component of our daily life. Social media helps people, who had never been heard, heard. Anyone can freely express his/her mind without feeling intimidated. This paper deals with data from one of the most popular social media, Twitter, for understanding public perceptions and misperceptions of net neutrality. A Sentimental analysis on tweets related to net neutrality is done country wise and overall during the period 2016-2017. The classification is done using machine learning technique. Processing of tweets data is done to find sentiments of people and polarity of their tweets which helps us to determine the attitude of the people around the world. Keywords-Sentimental Analysis; Net Neutrality; Naive Bayes Classifie;rLexicons;Polarity I. INTRODUCTION Sentimental Analysis can be defined as a contextual understanding of a sentence expressed in a social media or opinion mentioned by a person in form of a text. It is a part of Natural Language processing and detection of attitude of people or a society on a particular issue. It is a part of subjectivity analysis which includes review mining, opinion mining, appraisal extraction. The sentimental analysis can be in sentence level, document level and future level.[1] Feedback is a mechanism of expression of our views or attitude of people whatever thing that is happening in and around us. It will be there in a launch of new product, new policy decisions of the Government, new events by tweets, Face books or Instagrams. We can say these as opinion retrieval system in social media.[2][3] Net neutrality is a government mandated policy for all internet service providers to take all information in the internet to all users without any discrimination in terms of platform, website, content, equipment. No special favour to be shown to any data in the internet for whatsoever reasons. A predominant opinion about net neutrality is that an extremely popular device like internet, if remains neutral, can be the most useful device that human race has ever invented. The practice of certain internet service providers allowing certain data free of cost and slowing down some data or selling some data for a price are all considered to be against net neutrality. In the face of tough competition between ISPs, many have resorted to such practices to attract more customers. Though to some extend it helps certain section of the customers, to the larger extend, major part of the customers stand to lose.21st century's 17 years saw revolutionary changes in the way humans live. Internet played a big role in these developments. Unbridled availability of data across any kind of network was the key to the success of internet and it helped people bring the world to their finger tips. With the advent of competition among the internet service providers, to gain upper hand over or...