IJoICT (International Journal on Information and Communication Technology)
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024): Vol.10 No. 2 Dec 2024

Geospatial Sentiment Analysis Using Twitter Data on Natural Disasters in Indonesia with Support Vector Machine (SVM) Algorithm

Muhamad Agung Nulhakim (Unknown)
Yuliant Sibaroni (Unknown)
Ku Muhammad Naim Ku Khalif (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Jan 2025

Abstract

Twitter serves as a crucial platform for expressing public sentiment during natural disasters. This study conducts geospatial sentiment analysis on 988 labeled tweets related to the eruption of Mount Marapi, categorized into four aspects which are Basic Needs, Impact and Damage, Response and Action, and Weather and Nature. The preprocessing stage includes data cleaning, case folding, tokenization, normalization, stopword removal, and stemming. Feature extraction uses TF-IDF, while class imbalance is addressed with SMOTE. Each aspect is modeled separately using Support Vector Machine (SVM) with linear, polynomial, and RBF kernels, evaluated through 10-fold cross-validation. Results show that the linear kernel performed best across most aspects, achieving 92.42% accuracy for Impact and Damage, 80.38% for Response and Action, and 94.22% for Weather and Nature. Meanwhile, the RBF kernel showed competitive performance with 89.54% accuracy for Basic Needs. Geospatial visualization highlights regional sentiment distribution patterns, offering insights into public responses across Indonesian regions. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the linear kernel in SVM for sentiment classification and emphasizes the role of geospatial analysis in understanding public sentiment during natural disasters.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijoict

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

International Journal on Information and Communication Technology (IJoICT) is a peer-reviewed journal in the field of computing that published twice a year; scheduled in December and ...