Abstract :
Social media provides easy access to social networking. One of them is Youtube. Youtube can provide a variety of information, entertainment, and news that can be taken into consideration in determining public opinion. The topic that is currently being discussed is the vaccine booster policy in Indonesia. To find out public opinion about this, analyzing sentiment on Youtube video commentary data
regarding the vaccine booster policy is necessary. In analyzing sentiment, a suitable
classification method is needed so that the polarity of the comment data is in the
true polarity class. The raw data resulting from data retrieval from Youtube
comments needs to be cleaned, intending to reduce noise in the data, such as
deleting junk comments. So in this study, additional cleaning was carried out which
was more adapted to the Youtube comment pattern. The classification method used
is the Support Vector Machine (SVM) method. SVM is a classification method that
has good performance in mapping data according to class and can work well on
high-dimensional data. In the SVM method, it is necessary to select a kernel to train
the model. In this study, experiments were carried out on both kernels, namely the
linear kernel and the RBF. As for the results of the study, the model with the best
performance was obtained based on testing with 3929 training data and 364 test
data. Accuracy, precision, recall, and f1-score were obtained respectively 0.86,
0.85, 0.82, and 0.83. This model is built with a linear kernel, while the RBF kernel
has lower evaluation results regarding accuracy performance and computation time.
Then the results of the sentiment analysis regarding the booster vaccine were
obtained, namely, from 364 comments, it was predicted that 210 negative
comments and 154 positive comments were obtained. It can be concluded that
public sentiment, especially Youtube users, tends to reject the vaccine booster
policy.