Implementation Of Text Mining For Emotion Detection Using The Lexicon Method (Case Study: Tweets About Covid-19)

Abstract

Information and news about Covid-19 received various responses from social media users, including Twitter users. Changes in netizen opinion from time to time are interesting to analyze, especially about the patterns of public sentiment and emotions contained in these opinions. Sentiment and emotional conditions can illustrate the public's response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. This research has two objectives, first to reveal the types of public emotions that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Second, reveal the topics or words that appear most frequently in each emotion class. There are seven types of emotions to be detected, namely anger, fear, disgust, sadness, surprise, joy, and trust. The dataset used is Indonesian-language tweets, which were downloaded from April to August 2020. The method used for the extraction of emotional features is the lexicon-based method using the EmoLex dictionary. The result obtained is a monthly graph of public emotional conditions related to the Covid-19 pandemic in the dataset.