<![CDATA[In the digital era, user feedback on mobile applications serves as highly valuable information for developers to evaluate app performance. One popular application in the field of finance and investment is TradingView, widely used for technical analysis by traders. User feedback on this application reflects various user sentiments, including positive, negative, and neutral. However, the large volume of reviews and the unstructured nature of text data make manual analysis inefficient and prone to high subjective bias. Therefore, the use of automatic classification methods capable of processing text data with reasonable accuracy is required. This study aims to implement the “Support Vector Machine (SVM)” technique to classify user feedback on the TradingView application. To address the issue of imbalanced sentiment class distribution, the study also employs the “Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE)”. The study utilizes 10,000 reviews obtained via web scraping from the Google Play Store. The study workflow consists of text preprocessing, feature extraction using “Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)”, data balancing, SVM model training, and model evaluation. The evaluation results show that the application of SVM with SMOTE achieves an accuracy of approximately ±85.56% across data splits (70:30, 80:20, 90:10). In each scenario, the highest F1-score was achieved for the positive sentiment class, while the performance of minority classes (negative and neutral) improved after data balancing with SMOTE, with an average F1-score increase of 1.67% for the negative class and 10.67% for the neutral class. Without SMOTE, the average negative F1-score was ±57%, and the neutral class was undetected (0.00%). Furthermore, validation using K-Fold Cross Validation yielded an average accuracy of 89.20%, which increased to 95.10% after applying SMOTE. This improvement was consistent across all data proportions (70:30, 80:20, 90:10), with an average increase of 5.44%. These findings confirm that integrating SVM with SMOTE not only enhances classification performance on imbalanced data but also maintains model stability. Therefore, this study contributes to the advancement of automated sentiment classification systems, particularly for financial mobile app reviews, and can serve as a reference for future research in user review analysis on similar applications.]]>
