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Hoax COVID-19 News Detection Based on Sentiment Analysis in Indonesian using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Method Alifia Shafira
International Journal on Information and Communication Technology (IJoICT) Vol. 8 No. 2 (2022): December 2022
Publisher : School of Computing, Telkom University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21108/ijoict.v8i2.682

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The increasing use of technology makes it easier for information media such as news to be disseminated and does not demand possibilities, there is a lot of hoax news spreading. Twitter is one of the media most frequently used by the public to access and disseminate information. This research will focus on detecting Indonesian language COVID-19 news taken from Twitter. Detection of hoax news can be assisted by using sentiment analysis, one of the uses of classification text. Support Vector Machine (SVM) can be used to perform sentiment analysis tasks. After getting the sentiment analysis results, the hoax detection process will use the Bag of Words. Bag of Words is a collection of word dictionaries for weighting words to determine specific labels. The built SVM model succeeded in classifying tweet repliessentiment with an average accuracy of 83.17% with a threshold of 35%. At the same time, the hoax detection process gets the best accuracy of 62.5% with a threshold of -5 or -6.