Lexicon-based comparison for suicide sentiment analysis on Twitter (X)

Munawar Munawar, Dwi Sartika, Fathinatul Husnah

Abstract


Suicidal individuals frequently share their desires on social media. As a result, it was determined that a learning machine for early detection of suicide issues on social media was required. This study aims to examine Twitter (X) users’ suicide-related sentiment expressions. The results of searching X for the keywords ‘suicide’, ‘wish to die’, and ‘want to commit suicide’ for 4 months yielded 5,535 tweets. Following the cleaning process, 2,425 tweets were collected. The findings of labeling with the lexicon-based valence aware dictionary and sentiment reasoner (VADER) and Indonesia sentiment (INSET) lexicon, which psychologists confirmed, revealed that VADER was more accurate (92.1%) than INSET (81.6%). Sentiment research reveals negative (86.4%), positive (11.1%), and neutral (2.5%) sentiment. Support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and Naïve Bayes modeling results show accuracy above 86%, with SVM having the best accuracy (87.65%). Because of its great accuracy, this model can be used to identify and analyze suspicious behavior relating to suicide on X. Further research is still required, despite the excellent identification of early indicators of suicide ideation from social media posts.


Keywords


Indonesia sentiment; K-nearest neighbor; Naïve Bayes; sentiment analysis; suicide; support vector machine; valence aware dictionary and sentiment reasoner;

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.12928/telkomnika.v23i5.25711

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