Sentiment Analysis on Corona Virus Pandemic Using Machine Learning Algorithm

Abstract

Corona virus outbreaks that occur in almost all countries in the world have an impact not only in the health sector, but also in other sectors such as tourism, finance, transportation, etc. This raises a variety of sentiments from the public with the emergence of corona virus as a trending topic on Twitter social media. Twitter was chosen by the public because it can disseminate information in real time and can see market reactions quickly. This research uses "tweet" data or public tweet related to "Corona Virus" to see how the sentiment polarity arises. Text mining techniques and three machine learning classification algorithms are used, including Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) to build a tweet classification model of sentiments whether they have positive, negative, or neutral polarity. The highest test results are generated by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm with an accuracy value of 76.21%, a precision value of 78.04%, and a recall value of 71.42%. Keywords: Machine Learning, Corona Virus, Twitter, Sentiment Analysis.