SENTIMENT ANALYSIS WITH LONG-SHORT TERM MEMORY (LSTM) AND GATED RECURRENT UNIT (GRU) ALGORITHMS

Abstract

Sentiment analysis is a form of machine learning that functions to obtain emotional polarity values or data tendencies from data in the form of text. Sentiment analysis is needed to analyze opinions, sentiments, reviews, and criticisms from someone for a product, service, organization, topic, etc. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is one of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms that is used in sentiment analysis. RNN is a neural network that can use internal memory to process input. RNN itself has a weakness in Long-Term Memory (LTM). Therefore, this article examines the combination of Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) algorithms. GRU is an algorithm that is used to make each recurrent unit able to record adaptively at different time scales. Meanwhile, LSTM is a network architecture with the advantage of learning long-term dependencies on data. LSTM can remember long-term memory information, learn long-sequential data, and form information relation data in LTM. The combination of LSTM and GRU aims to overcome RNN’s weakness in LTM. The LSTM-GRU is combined by adding GRU to the data generated from LSTM. The combination of LSTM and GRU creates a better performance algorithm for addressing the LTM problem.