Bilingual sentiment analysis on Malaysian social media using vader and normalisation heuristics

• Main Authors: James Mountstephens, Tan, Mathieson Zui Quen, Lai, Po Hung
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 2023
• Subjects: QA76.75-76.765 Computer software; T10.5-11.9 Communication of technical information
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39226/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39226/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39226/

This research addresses a number of important issues involved in performing Sentiment Analysis (SA) on Malaysian Social Media (SM), including an analysis of bilingual or mixed language, choice of sentiment lexicon, normalisation heuristics, and the use of public datasets. This work is the first to q...