Sentiment analysis model for cryptocurrency tweets using different deep learning techniques

Abstract

Bitcoin (BTC) is one of the most important cryptocurrencies widely used in various financial and commercial transactions due to the fluctuations in the price of this currency. Recent research in large data analytics and natural language processing has resulted in the development of automated techniques for assessing the sentiment in online communities, which has emerged as a crucial platform for users to express their thoughts and comments. Twitter, one of the most well-known social media platforms, provides many tweets about the BTC cryptocurrency. With this knowledge, we can apply deep learning (DL) to use these data to predict BTC price variations. The researchers are interested in studying and analyzing the reasons contributing to the BTC price’s erratic movement by analyzing Twitter sentiment. The main problem in this article is that no standard model with high accuracy can be relied upon in analyzing textual emotions, as it represents one of the factors affecting the rise and fall in the price of cryptocurrencies. This article aims to classify the sentiments of an expression into positive, negative, or neutral emotions. The methods that have been used are word embedding FastText model in addition to different DL methods that deal with time series, one-dimensional convolutional neural networks (CONV1D), long-short-term memory networks (LSTMs), recurrent neural networks, gated recurrent units, and a Bi-LSTM + CONV1D The main results revealed that the LSTM method, based on the DL technique, achieved the best results. The performance accuracy of the methods was 95.01, 95.95, 80.59, 95.82, and 95.67%, respectively. Thus, we conclude that the LSTM method achieved better results than other methods in analyzing the textual sentiment of BTC.

Keywords

• cryptocurrency
• deep learning
• algorithms
• sentiment analysis
• natural language processing
• preprocessing