Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI)
Vol 10, No 1: March 2022

Sentiment Analysis in Karonese Tweet using Machine Learning

Ichwanul Muslim Karo Karo (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Mohd Farhan Md Fudzee (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Shahreen Kasim (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Azizul Azhar Ramli (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 Mar 2022

Abstract

Recently, many social media users expressed their conditions, ideas, emotions using local languages ​​on social media, for example via tweets or status. Due to the large number of texts, sentiment analysis is used to identify opinions, ideas, or thoughts from social media. Sentiment analysis research has also been widely applied to local languages. Karonese is one of the largest local languages ​​in North Sumatera, Indonesia. Karo society actively use the language in expression on twitter. This study proposes two things: Karonese tweet dataset for classification and analysis of sentiment on Karonese. Several machine learning algorithms are implemented in this research, that is Logistic regression, Naive bayes, K-nearest neighbor, and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Karonese tweets is obtained from timeline twitter based on several keywords and hashtags. Transcribers from ethnic figures helped annotating the Karo tweets into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. To get the best model, several scenarios were run based on various compositions of training data and test data. The SVM algorithm has highest accuracy, precision, recall, and F-1 scores than others. As the research is a preliminary research of sentiment analysis on Karonese language, there are many feature works to improvement.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJEEI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI) is a peer reviewed International Journal in English published four issues per year (March, June, September and December). The aim of Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI) is to publish high-quality ...