TY - GEN
T1 - An analytical study of Arabic sentiments
T2 - 2013 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2013
AU - Al-Kabi, Mohammed N.
AU - Abdulla, Nawaf A.
AU - Al-Ayyoub, Mahmoud
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The problem of automatically extracting opinions and emotions from textual data have gained a lot of interest recently. Unfortunately, most studies on Sentiment Analysis (SA) focus mainly on the English language, whereas studies considering other important and wide-spread languages such as Arabic are few. Moreover, publicly-available Arabic datasets are seldom found on the Web. In this work, a labeled dataset of Arabic reviews/comments is collected from a social networking website (Yahoo!-Maktoob). A detailed analysis of different aspects of the collected dataset such as the reviews' length, the numbers of likes/dislikes, the polarity distribution and the languages used is presented. Finally, the dataset is used to test popular classifiers commonly used for SA.
AB - The problem of automatically extracting opinions and emotions from textual data have gained a lot of interest recently. Unfortunately, most studies on Sentiment Analysis (SA) focus mainly on the English language, whereas studies considering other important and wide-spread languages such as Arabic are few. Moreover, publicly-available Arabic datasets are seldom found on the Web. In this work, a labeled dataset of Arabic reviews/comments is collected from a social networking website (Yahoo!-Maktoob). A detailed analysis of different aspects of the collected dataset such as the reviews' length, the numbers of likes/dislikes, the polarity distribution and the languages used is presented. Finally, the dataset is used to test popular classifiers commonly used for SA.
KW - Arabic text analysis
KW - document-level sentiment analysis
KW - social network
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84896639606
U2 - 10.1109/ICITST.2013.6750168
DO - 10.1109/ICITST.2013.6750168
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896639606
SN - 9781908320209
T3 - 2013 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2013
SP - 89
EP - 94
BT - 2013 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 23 March 2013 through 25 March 2013
ER -