
Shashi Shankar
Mar 18, 2023
AWS Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Comments Using Amazon Comprehend
Sentiment analysis involves analyzing the sentiments expressed in text using diverse algorithms. It enables the identification of emotions, categorizing them as positive, neutral, or negative. This capability has facilitated the creation of intelligent applications that can better comprehend received text.
Amazon Comprehend, an AWS service, employs machine learning algorithms for natural language processing (NLP), extracting insights from text. Its features include sentiment analysis, keyphrase extraction, entity recognition, and language detection APIs, simplifying the integration of NLP into applications.
There are various sets of text that need analysis for your business: product reviews, support emails, even advertising copy. Analyzing customer sentiment can be very useful for your business growth.
To analyze and take action on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) feeds using Amazon Comprehend, you can follow these steps:
Data Collection:
Use the 'X' API or other third-party tools to collect Twitter feeds related to your brand, products, or industry. You can retrieve tweets based on specific keywords, hashtags, or user mentions.
Data Preprocessing:
Preprocess the Twitter data to remove noise, such as retweets, spam, and irrelevant content. You may also need to handle text normalization, such as converting text to lowercase and removing special characters.
Sentiment Analysis:
Use Amazon Comprehend's sentiment analysis feature to analyze the sentiment of each tweet (positive, negative, or neutral). This will help you understand the overall sentiment of the Twitter conversation related to your brand or products.
Topic Modeling:
Apply topic modeling techniques to identify common themes and topics in the Twitter feeds. This can help you uncover trending topics, discussions, and customer interests.
Entity Recognition:
Use entity recognition to identify entities mentioned in the Twitter feeds, such as product names, brand mentions, and competitor names. This will allow you to track mentions of your brand and competitors and monitor market trends.
Actionable Insights:
Analyze the results of sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and entity recognition to extract actionable insights. Identify areas where your brand is performing well or needs improvement, understand customer preferences and concerns, and uncover opportunities for engagement.
Automated Actions:
Use the insights generated from Amazon Comprehend to automate actions, such as responding to customer inquiries, addressing negative feedback, or launching targeted marketing campaigns. You can integrate Amazon Comprehend with other AWS services, such as Amazon SNS or AWS Lambda, to trigger automated actions based on analysis results.
By leveraging Amazon Comprehend's natural language processing capabilities, you can gain valuable insights from Twitter feeds, understand customer sentiment and preferences, and take proactive actions to improve customer satisfaction and drive business outcomes.
This solution monitors a ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) feed, and sends relevant tweets to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Then it uses an AWS Lambda function to call Amazon Comprehend to provide a sentiment score. In case of highly negative score, the Marketing Operations team is alerted for taking appropriate action.
Benefits of this Solutions:
Scalable
Easy to Use
Cost-effective
Services Used in the Solution
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to rent virtual servers, known as instances, on which they can run their own applications. EC2 instances can be configured with various combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity to meet diverse workload requirements. Users have full control over their instances, including the ability to start, stop, and terminate them as needed. EC2 is commonly used for hosting websites, running applications, and performing various computing tasks in the cloud.
Amazon Kinesis Data Stream
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a scalable and durable real-time data streaming service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It enables users to collect, process, and analyze streaming data in real-time. With Kinesis Data Streams, users can ingest large volumes of data from multiple sources such as website clickstreams, log files, social media feeds, and IoT devices. The data is then processed in real-time using applications that can be built using various programming languages and frameworks supported by AWS. Kinesis Data Streams can handle data streams with millions of events per second, making it suitable for use cases such as real-time analytics, machine learning, and application monitoring.
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for reliably ingesting, transforming, and loading streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. It simplifies the process of ingesting streaming data by automatically scaling to accommodate the data volume and delivering it reliably to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, among others. Kinesis Data Firehose can capture, transform, and load data in real-time without requiring users to manage servers or infrastructure. It supports various data formats, compression methods, and encryption options to ensure data security and compatibility with downstream applications. Additionally, Kinesis Data Firehose integrates seamlessly with other AWS services and provides features like data transformation, error handling, and monitoring to streamline the data ingestion process.
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to run code in response to events without managing servers. With Lambda, you can upload your code and AWS Lambda takes care of provisioning and managing the servers, scaling automatically to match the incoming request volume. You can use Lambda to build applications that automatically respond to events from various AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, and many others, as well as custom events generated by your applications. Lambda supports multiple programming languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, and Ruby, allowing you to write your code using your preferred language. This serverless architecture enables you to focus on writing your application logic without worrying about infrastructure provisioning, scaling, or management.
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a scalable object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web. It provides highly durable and available storage infrastructure with a simple web services interface, making it easy to store and retrieve data objects such as photos, videos, documents, and backups. S3 offers various storage classes optimized for different use cases, including Standard for general-purpose storage, Intelligent-Tiering for automatic cost optimization, Glacier for long-term archival, and others. It also supports features like versioning, encryption, access control, and lifecycle management to help you manage your data effectively. S3 is widely used for a variety of use cases, including data lakes, backup and restore, content distribution, and application data storage
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses machine learning algorithms to analyze and extract insights from unstructured text. It offers a range of NLP capabilities, including sentiment analysis, keyphrase extraction, entity recognition, language detection, and topic modeling. With Amazon Comprehend, users can easily integrate advanced NLP functionality into their applications without requiring machine learning expertise. The service can analyze text from various sources such as social media, customer reviews, emails, and documents to uncover valuable insights and trends. Amazon Comprehend is designed to be scalable, accurate, and cost-effective, making it suitable for a wide range of use cases, including customer feedback analysis, content categorization, and business intelligence.
By leveraging Amazon Comprehend's NLP capabilities, you can gain valuable insights into customer perceptions, preferences, and behaviors, allowing you to create more targeted and effective marketing campaigns, improve customer satisfaction, and drive business growth.
Sentiment Analysis:
Analyze customer reviews, social media comments, and feedback to understand sentiment towards your products or brand. Identify positive sentiments to leverage for marketing campaigns and address negative sentiments to improve customer satisfaction.
Topic Modeling:
Discover trending topics and themes in customer conversations, blog posts, and social media discussions related to your industry or products. Use these insights to create relevant content and engage with your audience.
Keyphrase Extraction:
Extract key phrases and keywords from customer reviews, product descriptions, and marketing materials to identify common themes and trends. Use these keywords to optimize your website content, ad campaigns, and SEO strategy.
Entity Recognition:
Identify entities such as product names, brands, and competitors mentioned in customer feedback and online discussions. Monitor mentions of your brand and competitors to track market trends and adjust your marketing strategies accordingly.