Nurul Husna Mahadzir1, Mohd Faizal Omar2, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi3,*, 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
- 03 November 2021
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 More >