Azlinah Mohamed^1,3,*, Zuhaira Muhammad Zain², Hadil Shaiba^2,*, Nazik Alturki², Ghadah Aldehim², Sapiah Sakri², Saiful Farik Mat Yatin¹, Jasni Mohamad Zain¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1577-1601, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034746

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally, resulting in financial instability in many countries and reductions in the per capita gross domestic product. Sentiment analysis is a cost-effective method for acquiring sentiments based on household income loss, as expressed on social media. However, limited research has been conducted in this domain using the LexDeep approach. This study aimed to explore social trend analytics using LexDeep, which is a hybrid sentiment analysis technique, on Twitter to capture the risk of household income loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, tweet data were collected using Twint with relevant keywords before (9 March 2019 to… More >

Nurul Husna Mahadzir¹, Mohd Faizal Omar², Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi^3,*, Anas A. Salameh⁴, Kasmaruddin Che Hussin⁵, Abid Sohail⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 1789-1805, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021131

Abstract Currently, the sentiment analysis research in the Malaysian context lacks in terms of the availability of the sentiment lexicon. Thus, this issue is addressed in this paper in order to enhance the accuracy of sentiment analysis. In this study, a new lexicon for sentiment analysis is constructed. A detailed review of existing approaches has been conducted, and a new bilingual sentiment lexicon known as MELex (Malay-English Lexicon) has been generated. Constructing MELex involves three activities: seed words selection, polarity assignment, and synonym expansions. Our approach differs from previous works in that MELex can analyze text for the two most widely… More >