Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Methods Based on Accuracy Value
Case Study: Twitter Mentions of Academic Article

Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Methods Based on Accuracy Value
Case Study: Twitter Mentions of Academic Article

sentiment analysis, decision tree, k-nearest neighbors, naïve bayes, and random forest

The assessment of academic articles is based on the number of citations, but the number only is not enough. So now there is
Altmetric which can measure the impact of academic articles from the number of citations and using social media, usually
Twitter. Still, the number of mentions on Twitter is not enough because the expressions of the sentences vary. Mentions must
be classified according to neutral, positive, and negative criteria. Sentiment analysis is performed on tweets to measure social
media volume and attention related to research findings from academic articles. There are many sentiment analysis methods,
so this study aims to compare sentiment analysis methods using Decision Tree, K-NN, Naïve Bayes, and Random Forest to get
the most suitable methods. The evaluation method in this study uses the Confusion Matrix by searching for Accuracy, Precision,
and Recall values. The results show that the most suitable sentiment analysis method is Naïve Bayes by obtaining the highest
classification suitability value of the other methods, which has an actual positive sentiment va

Muhamad Fahmi Fakhrezi1
, Adian Fatchur Rochim2
, Dinar Mutiara Kusomo Nugraheni3

Diponegoro University

05-02-2023

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