Analysis of Sentiments on Indonesian YouTube Video Comments: Case Study of The Indonesian Government's Plan to Move the Capital City

Abstract

The Indonesian government's plan to move the capital city has received pros and cons in the community. Information related to it has become a trending topic in cyberspace, the internet, including YouTube. Many national news channels discuss this through videos on YouTube in the form of news, talk shows and interactive interviews with certain experts. Sentiment analysis that focuses on social issues is interesting to do on this topic. In contrast to the sentiment analysis carried out on product and service topics which usually uses a lot of adjective as the type of words analyzed to attract opinion sentiments, this study focuses on the verb as a focus to get the results of opinion sentiments related to social issues. With the Naive Bayes and Decision Tree to classifying sentiment, show that 91% and 93% is supporting the planned transfer of the capital city.