Sentiment Tendency Analysis of THAAD Event in Indonesian News

Abstract

The sentiment tendency analysis based on the news reports aims to discover the audience's attitude towards the hot event, which is an important research content of the emotion analysis. In the context of China's going-out strategy, we can effectively avoid the potential risks in the help of the in-depth study and interpretation of China's relevant policy in a certain country and region and the understanding of the local public opinion and the conditions of the people. As the official languages of those countries along the Belt and Road are mostly uncommon languages, we can not use the existing mature tools which use Chinese and English as the research object, so the sentiment tendency analysis to the uncommon languages is a very challenging task. On the basis of completing the basic work of Indonesian sentiment dictionary, degree adverb dictionary, negative word dictionary and stop word dictionary, this paper puts forward a set of calculating methods aiming at the sentiment tendencies in Indonesian language, which is applied to the calculation of the sentiment tendencies related to THAAD event in three major mainstream media in Indonesia, and the results of the calculation will be interpreted and analyzed.