In ODIs, World Cups and T-20
matches of various sports like Football, Cricket, Hockey, Basketball and
Badminton, fans express their feelings and emotions towards the players
by posting their status on social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. By
collecting these opinions and feelings of the fans from different
mediums, this research study has become more focused on a sentimental
analysis of the sport with a total of 3759 comments related to Football
(both national, international), Cricket, Hockey and Badminton. Since
sports related opinions have been taken up in Bengali, global vector
(glove) word embedding techniques are used for pre-processing which can
retrieve word meanings and synthetic information. It also specializes in
creating word vectors, including the structure of word embedding
infrastructure, and provides a special advantage over statistics. Three
models have been proposed in our study, one of which is a hybrid model
of CNN-LSTM. In the proposed CNN-LSTM model, the CNN model is used to
quote various features from word embedding that reflect short-term
sentiment dependence while creating long-term sentimental relationships
between LSTM words. In comparison to the hybrid model, two single models
CNN and LSTM are proposed in five categories (i.e. Positive, Negative,
Neutral, Happy, Sad). The sport's dataset integrates the CNN-LSTM hybrid
model with the glove embedding layer, providing 97.45% accuracy.
Lastly, the LSTM-CNN hybrid models perform comparatively better,
realizing the feeling of the fans' comments.