Opinion Analysis on Rohingya using Twitter Data

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N. Rochmawati, S.C. Wibawa

2018 IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 336 Issue 1 Conference paper Cited by 7

Abstract

Rohingya is an ethnicity in Myanmar. Recently there was a conflict in the area between the Rakhine population and the Myanmar army. Many opinions are pro and contra in addressing this issue. There is a critic, there is a support and there is a neutral. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the world public opinion about the case of Rohingya. The opinion data to be processed is taken from twitter. the reason for using twitter is because twitter has become one of the popular social media and includes the most frequently visited social media. Therefore, it would be a lot of data that can be taken from twitter to be processed in the process of sentiment analysis. The grouping of opinions will be divided into 3 parts of positive, negative and neutral. the method used in grouping is the naïve Bayes method. © 2018 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Department of Informatics, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia