A multi-criteria approach for Arabic dialect sentiment analysis for online reviews: Exploiting optimal machine learning algorithm selection

• Main Authors: Abo, Mohamed Elhag Mohamed, Idris, Norisma, Mahmud, Rohana, Qazi, Atika, Hashem, Ibrahim Abaker Targio, Maitama, Jaafar Zubairu, Naseem, Usman, Khan, Shah Khalid, Yang, Shuiqing
• Format: Article
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/34132/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

A sentiment analysis of Arabic texts is an important task in many commercial applications such as Twitter. This study introduces a multi-criteria method to empirically assess and rank classifiers for Arabic sentiment analysis. Prominent machine learning algorithms were deployed to build classificati...