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Fine-Grained Emotion Analysis of Arabic Tweets: A Multi-target Multi-label Approach

  • Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • Jadara University
  • Umm Al-Qura University
  • University of California at Santa Barbara

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Abstract

Emotion Analysis (EA) is the task of determining the emotion of a given piece of text. This is an important task with many applications especially when applied to tweets. However, existing work take a rather coarse-grained approach by assuming that each tweet has a single emotion and that this emotion has no intensity. In this work, we take a fine-grained approach by considering cases where a single tweet may have several emotions (multi-label) each with possibly different intensity (multi-target). Moreover, unlike existing work, which consider languages such as English and Chinese, we focus on the Arabic language, a severely under-studied language despite its importance. We build the first dataset (to the best of our knowledge) of Arabic tweets annotated for emotion analysis as a multi-label multi-target problem. Two human experts participated in the annotation process and Cohen's Kappa measure was used to determine their concordance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages340-345
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538644072
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2018 - Laguna Hills, United States
Duration: 31 Jan 20182 Feb 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2018
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLaguna Hills
Period31/01/182/02/18

Keywords

  • Arabic Tweets
  • Emotion Analysis
  • Multi-Target Multi-Label Approach

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