SENTIMENT ANALYSIS ON CLOSURE OF ILLEGAL MOVIE STREAMING SITES USING NAÏVE BAYES ALGORITHM

Abstract

The closure of illegal movie streaming sites IndoXXI has been a trending topic on Twitter at the end of 2019. The reaction of netizens on Twitter shows positive and negative sentiments. Until now, there have been many studies in the field of Sentiment Analysis using data in the form of Tweets from Twitter users. In sentiment analysis research, there are so many method used, and Naïve Bayes is one of it, because it is very simple and efficient. The method has advantages and disadvantages. Naïve Bayes is so sensitive in feature selection. Too many features not only increase calculation time but also reduce classification accuracy. In order to solve the disadvantages and increase the performance of the Naïve Bayes classifier, this method often being combined with many kind of feature selection methods. This research aims to classify tweets into positive and negative using the Naïve Bayes classifier combined with the Genetic Algorithm. The accuracy of Naïve Bayes before using the combination of feature selection methods reaches 79.55%. While after using feature selection methods, which is the Genetic Algorithm, accuracy increased up to 88.64%. The accuracy improved by up to 9.09%.