International Journal of Computing Sciences Research (ISSN print: 2546-0552; ISSN online: 2546-115X) Vol. 6, pp. 842-856 doi: 10.25147/ijcsr.2017.001.1.77 https://stepacademic.net This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. Short Paper Analyzing Public Concern Responses for Formulating Ordinances and Laws using Sentiment Analysis through VADER Application Charles Alfred A. Cruz College of Computer Studies, Laguna State Polytechnic University – Santa Cruz Campus, Philippines charlesalfredcruz@lspu.edu.ph (corresponding author) Francis F. Balahadia College of Computer Studies, Laguna State Polytechnic University – Siniloan Campus, Philippines francis.balahadia@lspu.edu.ph Date received: July 31, 2021 Date received in revised form: November 8, 2021 Date accepted: November 19, 2021 Recommended citation: Cruz, C.A., Balahadia, F.F. (2022). Analyzing public concern responses for formulating ordinances and laws using sentiment analysis trough VADER application. International Journal of Computing Sciences Research, 6, 842-856. doi: 10.25147/ijcsr.2017.001.1.77 Abstract Purpose – This paper aimed to develop a system that applies VADER Sentiment Analysis to tweets collected using a developed twitter scraper tool to identify the insights of public responses based on their tweets on certain government services rendered to them thus providing legislators of the province of Laguna an additional tool in writing future legislations. Method – This study may serve as an additional tool to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Laguna in identifying sentiments of the public in terms of government services that are rendered and lack thereof based on the collected tweets written in Tagalog, English or Taglish (Tagalog and English). Data collected through the Twitter scraper tool are preprocessed taking into consideration the special characters that also have impact on