Consumer Behavior Prediction During Covid-19 Pandemic Conditions Using Sentiment Analytics

Saravanan Murugan, Sulaf Assi, Abbas Alatrany, Manoj Jayabalan, Panagiotis Liatsis, Jamila Mustafina, Abdullah Al-Hamid, Maitham G. Yousif, Ahmed Kaky, Danny Ngo Lung Yao, Dhiya Al-Jumeily OBE

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    Abstract

    Covid-19 pandemic created a global shift in the way how consumers purchase. Restrictions to movements of individuals and commodities created a big challenge on day today life. Due to isolation, social media usage has increased substantially, and these platforms created significant impact carrying news and sentiments instantaneously. These sentiments impacted the purchase behavior of consumers and online retailers witnessed variations in their sales. Retailers used various customer behavior prediction models such as Recommendation systems to influence consumers and increasing their sales. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, these models may not perform the same way due to changes in consumer behavior. By integrating consumer sentiments from online social media platform as another feature in the prediction machine learning models such as recommendation systems, retailers can understand consumer behavior better and create Recommendations appropriately. This provides the consumers with appropriate choice of products in essential and non-essential categories based on pandemic condition restrictions. This also helps retailers to plan their operations and inventory appropriately.

    Original languageBritish English
    Title of host publicationLecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages209-221
    Number of pages13
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2023

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
    Volume165
    ISSN (Print)2367-4512
    ISSN (Electronic)2367-4520

    Keywords

    • Consumer behavior
    • Covid-19 pandemic
    • Machine learning
    • Recommendation systems
    • Sentiment analysis
    • Social media

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