Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Arabic: A Survey
Communications in computer and information sciencePublished 1 January 2012
Mohammed Korayem, David Crandall, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
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This paper surveys different techniques for SSA for Arabic and describes the main existing techniques and test corpora for Arabic SSA that have been introduced in the literature.
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Subjectivity and sentiment analysis (SSA) has recently gained considerable attention, but most of the resources and systems built so far are tailored to English and other Indo-European languages. The need for designing systems for other languages is increasing, especially as blogging and micro-blogging websites become popular throughout the world. This paper surveys different techniques for SSA for Arabic. After a brief synopsis about Arabic, we describe the main existing techniques and test corpora for Arabic SSA that have been introduced in the literature.
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