Assessing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy via Sentiment Analysis: A Fine-Tuned Naive Bayes Classifier using Feature Engineering
Abstract—The introduction of COVID-19 vaccines was met with scepticism and fear, amplified through social media plat- forms such as Twitter. This work investigates public sentiment regarding vaccines by creating a new, more accurate classifier for classifying COVID-19-related tweets by employing transfer learning of a pre-trained model, fine tuning the model with COVID-19-related data, and feature …