Muhammad Shafiq Harun; Nur Hurriyatul Huda binti Abdullah Sani
Sentiment Analysis on Non-citizen Workers in Malaysia
Introduction
- Malaysia has experienced a rise in foreign labour flows in response to steady economic expansion and demographic changes.
- It is undeniably true that there are many endless complaints and sentiments from Malaysians on the issue of increasing non-citizen workforce
- This study consider an alternative approach to measuring sentiments, with a focus on the foreign workers in Malaysia embodied in the online news articles.
- By using sentiment analysis pertaining to foreign workers in Malaysia through online news
articles, the main objectives of this case study are to identify the sentiment and emotion
words used:.
- to classify positive and negative sentiment words toward non-citizen workers in Malaysia
- to calculate the overall sentiment score for each articles through words used