Multilayer Perceptron and TF-IDF in the Classification of Hate Speech on Twitter in Indonesian

Syahrandi, Akmal
Latipah, Asslia Johar
Verdikha, Naufal Azmi

JSE Journal of Science and Engineering
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Science and Engineering

Twitter nowadays is one of the popular social media which currently has over 300millions accounts, twitter is the rich source to learn about people’s opion and sentimental analysis. However, this also brings new problems where the practice of hate speech. This research classifies of hate speech on social media. Evaluation using dataset from previous research Ibrohim&Budi (2019), then using classification method Multilayer Perceptron which combined with feature extraction to be able to detect negations and weighting uses Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF). Results show that the F1 score gives an accuracy rate of up to 74.51%. This research has a reasonably good effectiveness from combining the TF-IDF and Multilayer Perceptron methods, considering the results obtained from the F1 Score evaluation value.