A Study to Detect Emotions from Twitter Text Using Machine Learning Algorithms

One of the main factor contributing to mental illness, which has been linked to an increased risk of dying young is depression. Additionally, it significantly contributes to suicide ideation. Although there are many underlying reasons of depression, social networking sites play a key part in raising the likelihood of depression. In recent years social media has become the integral part of our daily lives. User reflects his internal life in the content he shares in his social media platform like twitter. People share happy incidents, joyful memories and sad moments through tweets. Thus it is possible to forecast depression in people using Twitter data. Various machine learning techniques have been employed to analyze these data. The algorithms employed are Naïve Bayes and Logistic Regression. Those algorithms will produce intended outcomes.