CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Tokmak, Tunay |
|---|---|
| Title | The Perception of Roma in Turkish Society: A Sentiment Analysis of Tweets |
| Summary | The Roma constitute a significant minority group in Turkey that is marginalized and stigmatized by mainstream society. The increase in social media usage results in a vast amount of data that can be used to derive public opinion on a particular issue and make datadriven decisions. In this context, sentiment analysis is implemented as a natural language processing technique to understand the perception of the Roma in Turkish society based on tweets posted with the çingene keyword, the equivalence of ‘gypsy’ in Turkish. The logistic regression model was used as the classifier while three different text vectorization techniques were applied. The model's precision differs based on the text vectorization techniques. It is 84.83 per cent for positive/negative word frequencies and the bag of words when it is 79.31 for term frequency-inverse document frequency. The analysis of collected tweets demonstrates that the Turkish society has a negative perception of the Roma. |
| Supervisor | Pál Galicza |
| Department | Romani Studies Ps |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/tokmak_tunay.pdf |
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