Analysis of Emoticon and Sarcasm Effect on Sentiment Analysis of Indonesian Language on Twitter

Abstract

Background: Indonesia is an active Twitter user that is the largest ranked in the world. Tweets written by Twitter users vary, from tweets containing positive to negative responses. This agreement will be utilized by the parties concerned for evaluation. Objective: On public comments there are emoticons and sarcasm which have an influence on the process of sentiment analysis. Emoticons are considered to make it easier for someone to express their feelings but not a few are also other opinion researchers, namely by ignoring emoticons, the reason being that it can interfere with the sentiment analysis process, while sarcasm is considered to be produced from the results of the sarcasm sentiment analysis in it. Methods: The emoticon and no emoticon categories will be tested with the same testing data using classification method are Naïve Bayes Classifier and Support Vector Machine. Sarcasm data will be proposed using the Random Forest Classifier, Naïve Bayes Classifier and Support Vector Machine method. Results: The use of emoticon with sarcasm detection can increase the accuracy value in the sentiment analysis process using Naïve Bayes Classifier method. Conclusion: Based on the results, the amount of data greatly affects the value of accuracy. The use of emoticons is excellent in the sentiment analysis process. The detection of superior sarcasm only by using the Naïve Bayes Classifier method due to differences in the amount of sarcasm data and not sarcasm in the research process. Keywords: Emoticon, Naïve Bayes Classifier, Random Forest Classifier, Sarcasm, Support Vector Machine