Análise de sentimentos em Tweets relacionados ao desmatamento da Floresta Amazônica

Abstract

The Amazon Forest is being devastated at the fastest pace in recent years. In 2021, the Amazon rainforest registers the largest accumulation of deforestation in 5 years, increasing from 13 thousand km2 between August 2020 and July 2021. An increase of 22% compared to the same period in the previous year, the highest number since 2006. Although many works address the issue of deforestation, none of them focus on analyzing the sentiments of the Brazilian population regarding the issue. This work presents an analysis of the sentiments of the Brazilian population related to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through the text mining of Twitter and aims to understand how Brazilian users opine and dialogue about the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. The results reveal that Brazilian users tend to react to events related to deforestation in the Amazon forest on Twiter and that most users have a negative sentiment about the topic, reaching peaks of approximately 60% of tweets in a given time.