Sentiment analysis for measuring hope and fear from Reddit posts during the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

This article proposes a novel lexicon-based unsupervised sentiment analysis method to measure the "" and "" for the 2022 Ukrainian-Russian Conflict. is utilized as the main source of human reactions to daily events during nearly the first 3 months of the conflict. The top 50 "hot" posts of six different subreddits about Ukraine and news (Ukraine, worldnews, Ukraina, UkrainianConflict, UkraineWarVideoReport, and UkraineWarReports) along with their relative comments are scraped every day between 10th of May and 28th of July, and a novel data set is created.