The Public Sentiment Analysis of Double Reduction Policy on Weibo Platform

Weibo platform is an indispensable transmission channel in education policy release and dissemination. The events and sentiments contained in education policies microblogs include the public sentiment and support the general management and guidance scientifically and efficiently. This study constructs a dataset based on the “Double Reduction Policy” relevant microblogs and comments. The policy events are extracted by Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and Language Technology Platform (LTP). Based on the emotion dictionary, an attention-based BiLSTM model is constructed to classify the public sentiments. The experimental results reveal four themes: “industry impact,” “institutional supervision,” “public feedback,” and “policy implementation.” The distribution conforms to the development trend of online public sentiments.