Jurnal Bumigora Information Technology (BITe)
Vol 4 No 2 (2022)

Deteksi Berita Hoax Mengenai Vaksin Covid-19 dengan Menggunakan Levenshtein Distance

Gilang Brilians Firmanesha (Telkom University)
Sri Suryani Prasetyowati (Telkom University)
Yuliant Sibaroni (Telkom University)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Dec 2022

Abstract

The internet is a communication tool that we often use. The internet itself has brought many benefits. However, some people misuse it, for example, individuals or a group of people who spread hoaxes or fake news to incite and lead the publics’ opinions to their desired side. When COVID-19 spread in Indonesia and the government implemented mandatory vaccine obligations, the total of hoaxes on vaccination increased rapidly. Due to a large number of hoaxes on the Internet on COVID-19 vaccinations, As for several studies on the creation of a hoax detection system with various methods to try to overcome this problem, one of the studies with a system that detects hoax news and uses several methods, one of these methods is Levenshtein, getting a fairly low-performance result of 40% compared to other methods used. Therefore. Researchers are motivated to develop a hoax detection system with a similar method by adding Feature Extraction which aims to improve system performance from the previous research. In this study, 2 main experiments were conducted using Levenshtein distance as the main classification method, the results showed the best results in experiment-2 with an f1-score of 70.2% which was an increase compared to previous studies due to adding feature extraction using tf-idf.

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Journal Info

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bite

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

Jurnal Bumigora Information Technology (BITe) is one of the journals owned at Bumigora University which is managed by the Department of Computer Science. This journal is intended to provide publications for academics, researchers and practitioners who wish to publish research in the field of ...