An approach to analyze suicidal tendency in blogs and tweets using Sentiment Analysis

Abstract

Sentiment Analysis(SA) or Opinion Mining is done to find the opinion of the users and customers to review and analyse their opinions on various products and services. It is one of the major tasks in business these days for knowing demands of customers. In this paper a sentiment analysis method for analyzing the suicidal tendencies in blogs and tweets is proposed. The proposed method uses concepts like Bag of words ,Part of Speech and Natural Language Processing for analzing the text.In life sometimes such a situation arises where the person finds himself trapped and suicide only seems to be the ultimate respite from all problems. Such a person may not share his mental condition verbally with anyone but may share it through tweets and messages. This paper is an approach to reach out a helping hand to such people by analyzing such tendencies in their messages. The proposed method uses Python Language module Textblob for performing different analysis task on the text.