Indonesian Language Hoax News Classification Basedn on Naïve Bayes

Abstract

Hoax news in Indonesia causes various problems, therefore it is necessary to classify whether a news is in the hoax category or is valid. Naive Bayes is an algorithm that can perform classification but has a weakness, namely the selection of attributes that can affect accuracy so that it needs to be optimized by giving weights to attributes using the TF-IDF method. Classification using Naive Bayes and using TF-IDF as attribute weighting on a dataset of 600 data resulted in 82% accuracy, 84% precision, and 89% recall. The suggestion put forward is that it is better to use a larger number of datasets in order to produce higher accuracy.