Sentiment Analysis of Self Driving Car Dataset: A comparative study of Deep Learning approaches.

Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a crucial task in understanding public opinions and perceptions towards emerging technologies. In this study, we focus on SA for a self-driving car dataset as it provides valuable insights into public perceptions and opinions towards a transformative technology. The dataset consists of textual reviews associated with sentiment labels, providing insights into how people perceive self-driving car technology. Our objective is to analyze the sentiments expressed in these reviews using Deep Learning (DL) models, namely, Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and Bidirectional GRU (BiGRU). We compared our results with an existing technique in the field of self-driving car sentiment classification, that implemented various Machine Learning (ML) and DL models, including Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naïve Bayes (NB), Logistic Regression (LR), Random Forest (RF), CNN, and LSTM. In our study, we expanded upon this research by evaluating the performance of ANN, BiLSTM, GRU, and BiGRU. Results reveal that BiLSTM, GRU, and BiGRU exhibit superior performance in sentiment classification within the self-driving car dataset. These findings offer valuable insights into public sentiment towards self-driving cars, contributing significantly to the advancement of SA techniques in the domain of autonomous vehicles. Additionally, the results are statistically tested and are statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]