Research Article
On Public Sentiments Toward Waste Incineration Facilities and How to Disarm People’s Psychology of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” Text Mining Analysis Based on Online Public Opinion Data from 2019 to 2020
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.17-6-2022.2322842, author={Jing Yang and Haidong Liu and Ji Wu}, title={On Public Sentiments Toward Waste Incineration Facilities and How to Disarm People’s Psychology of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” Text Mining Analysis Based on Online Public Opinion Data from 2019 to 2020}, proceedings={Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Economy, Data Modeling and Cloud Computing, ICIDC 2022, 17-19 June 2022, Qingdao, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICIDC}, year={2022}, month={10}, keywords={waste incineration public opinion sentiment measurement text mining}, doi={10.4108/eai.17-6-2022.2322842} }- Jing Yang
Haidong Liu
Ji Wu
Year: 2022
On Public Sentiments Toward Waste Incineration Facilities and How to Disarm People’s Psychology of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” Text Mining Analysis Based on Online Public Opinion Data from 2019 to 2020
ICIDC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.17-6-2022.2322842
Abstract
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the serious challenges of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” caused by waste incineration facilities still need to be dealt with properly. The research collected online public opinion data on “Waste Incineration” in Chinese from 2019 to 2020, carried out a program to measure public sentiments towards waste incineration using the emotional dictionary method, and then evaluated and analyzed the public’s attitude towards waste incineration facilities after a series of special rectification actions taken by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. Based on the above investigations, the reasons behind the problem of “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” caused by waste incineration facilities were analyzed by combining TF-IDF keywords extraction with manual identification method. Our research found that the public's attention to “waste incineration” is gradually increasing and most people began to cherish positive sentiments toward it. Compared with 2019, the proportion of positive sentiments of the public increased by about 16%, while that of negative sentiments decreased by more than 11% in 2020.