Emotion and Worry Measurement Comparison of United Kingdom and Thailand During The First COVID-19 Lockdown Situation
Keywords:
COVID-19, Emotion Analysis, Anxiety, Deep Learning, LIWCAbstract
The epidemic situation of the COVID-19 and the measures to control the spread of the disease that the government enforced have greatly affected the daily lives of Thai people because they must suffer various pressures, stress, and anxiety. For this research, the researcher compared the anxiety caused by COVID-19 between UK and Thailand to see if they are similar or different. In a sentiment analysis, the data collection comes from the discussion on the web forums to collect the topics related to COVID-19 and disease control measures from the government from March 2020 to May 2020. The chosen topics were analyzed by counting the words that expressed various emotions. Thailand's information will use the AI for THAI platform under the concept of "Thai AI" by extracting emojis to express emotions that will be converted into words. The results showed that the Thai people responded most react emotionally to the matter in a sad mood. Emotions were extracted through the LIWC technique, and the results showed that most of them had more anxiety than other feelings, which were different from those in Thailand. However, most of the sorrows and worries influence jobs and incomes in both countries, but in Thailand, debt is another factor that causes more sadness than just worry. According to this research, the researcher considers it essential to study and analyze people's emotions to find out the impact on people's emotions, which may affect their lifestyles when facing other serious disease outbreaks in the future.
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