Islamophobia Sentiment Classification Using Support Vector Machine

Abstract

Sentiment analysis is the process of understanding and classifying words into several categories. It is also known as opinion mining, which involves exploring opinions and emotions from text data. Sentiments can be classified into positive, negative, and neutral categories. Islam is a religion that has been in existence for centuries. Its teachings aim to foster peace and surrender to its creator, namely Allah SWT. The constructivist view of Islam has given rise to Islamophobia, which is the result of a long-standing construct that presents a negative image of Islam. Currently, Islamophobia is a growing issue that generates diverse views, especially on social media platforms. The analysis was conducted using the SVM algorithm and a dataset comprising 1000 tweets sourced from Twitter. The algorithm achieved an accuracy rate of 99.99% after testing, indicating its suitability for sentiment analysis. The error rate generated using MSE was 0.010, while the RMSE was 0.099.