A review of sentiment analysis research in Arabic language

Sentiment analysis is a task of natural language processing which has recently attracted increasing attention. However, sentiment analysis research has mainly been carried out for the English language. Although Arabic is ramping up as one of the most used languages on the Internet, only a few st...

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Main Authors: Oueslati, Oumaima, Cambria, Erik, HajHmida, Moez Ben, Ounelli, Habib
Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154560
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Sentiment analysis is a task of natural language processing which has recently attracted increasing attention. However, sentiment analysis research has mainly been carried out for the English language. Although Arabic is ramping up as one of the most used languages on the Internet, only a few studies have focused on Arabic sentiment analysis so far. In this paper, we carry out an in-depth qualitative study of the most important research works in this context by presenting limits and strengths of existing approaches. In particular, we survey both approaches that leverage machine translation or transfer learning to adapt English resources to Arabic and approaches that stem directly from the Arabic language.