Journal of Multimedia Trend and Technology
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Multimedia Trend and Technology

Sentiment Analysis in User Reviews of Tourist Attractions in East Nusa Tenggara Using Machine Learning Classification

Aulia Dian Agustina (Universitas Amikom Purwokerto)
Primandani Arsi (Universitas Amikom Purwokerto)
Pungkas Subarkah (Universitas Amikom Purwokerto)
Irfan Santiko (Universitas Amikom Purwokerto)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Apr 2026

Abstract

This study aims to analyze user review sentiments for six tourist attractions in East Nusa Tenggara Province by utilizing a large amount of review data obtained from Google Maps. Data was collected through a scraping process using Serp API, followed by cleaning and text pre-processing to improve data quality. Sentiment labeling was performed automatically using the Indo-BERT model to obtain three sentiment classes: positive, negative, and neutral. Text feature representation was performed using the Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) method, then classified using the baseline Support Vector Machine (SVM) model and the optimized SVM model with Grid-Search CV. The evaluation results showed that the baseline SVM model produced an accuracy of 83.87%, but showed an imbalance in performance between classes with a Macro F1-score of 0.4287. After parameter optimization using Grid-Search CV, the optimized SVM model produced an accuracy of 78.27% with an increase in the Macro F1-score value to 0.4818. This increase indicates an improvement in the model's ability to recognize minority sentiment classes despite a decrease in overall accuracy. Overall, the optimized SVM model provides more balanced and representative classification results in describing tourists' perceptions based on online reviews, so it can be used as a basis for sentiment analysis in the tourism sector.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JMTT

Publisher

Subject

Arts Computer Science & IT Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The Journal of Multimedia Trend and Technology is an online journal organised and managed independently by a consortium of multimedia and visual communication design lecturers. JMTT is an open-access journal that is provided for researchers, lecturers, and students who will publish research results ...