Corpora for sentiment analysis of Arabic text in social media

ITANI, Maher, ROAST, Chris and AL-KHAYATT, Samir (2017). Corpora for sentiment analysis of Arabic text in social media. In: 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS). IEEE, 64-69.

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Abstract

Different Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as text categorization, machine translation, etc., need annotated corpora to check quality and performance. Similarly, sentiment analysis requires annotated corpora to test the performance of classifiers. Manual annotation performed by native speakers is used as a benchmark test to measure how accurate a classifier is. In this paper we summarise currently available Arabic corpora and describe work in progress to build, annotate, and use Arabic corpora consisting of Facebook (FB) posts. The distinctive nature of thesecorpora is that it is based on posts written in Dialectal Arabic (DA) not following specific grammatical or spelling standards. The corpora are annotated with five labels (positive, negative, dual, neutral, and spam). In addition to building the corpus, the paper illustrates how manual tagging can be used to extract opinionated words and phrases to be used in a lexicon-based classifier.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Sentiment Analysis, Arabic, Social Media, Informal arabic
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Computing
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1109/IACS.2017.7921947
Page Range: 64-69
Depositing User: Chris Roast
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2017 14:50
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 15:34
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15256

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