IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 15, No 3: June 2026

Hybrid deep learning for sentiment analysis of online student experiences

Raja Ouadad (Sultan Moulay Slimane University)
Hicham Mouncif (Sultan Moulay Slimane University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2026

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted millions of lives worldwide, and social media platforms became a significant outlet for people to share their emotions and experiences, providing valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of remote education. This paper analyzes student sentiments about online learning during the pandemic using Twitter data. An experimental approach is developed to analyze public comments, focusing on the sentiment expressed in tweets related to online education. A hybrid deep learning model, based on the logistic regression (LR) sentiment model, is used to predict sentiment from a large dataset of online learning-related tweets. After performing n-gram analysis to extract key topics, tweets are classified into sentiment classes. The proposed convolutional long short term memory (Conv-LSTM) and convolutional bidirectional long short-term memory (Conv-BiLSTM) models are trained on tweets annotated with granular sentiment classifications, achieving validation accuracies of 93% and 95%, respectively. This work provides meaningful insights into the emotional effects of online learning during the pandemic, contributing to the understanding of students' experiences and challenges in remote education.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...