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Arabic Language Sentiment Analysis on Health Services

Computation and Language 2017-11-02 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing Social and Information Networks

Abstract

The social media network phenomenon leads to a massive amount of valuable data that is available online and easy to access. Many users share images, videos, comments, reviews, news and opinions on different social networks sites, with Twitter being one of the most popular ones. Data collected from Twitter is highly unstructured, and extracting useful information from tweets is a challenging task. Twitter has a huge number of Arabic users who mostly post and write their tweets using the Arabic language. While there has been a lot of research on sentiment analysis in English, the amount of researches and datasets in Arabic language is limited. This paper introduces an Arabic language dataset which is about opinions on health services and has been collected from Twitter. The paper will first detail the process of collecting the data from Twitter and also the process of filtering, pre-processing and annotating the Arabic text in order to build a big sentiment analysis dataset in Arabic. Several Machine Learning algorithms (Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine and Logistic Regression) alongside Deep and Convolutional Neural Networks were utilized in our experiments of sentiment analysis on our health dataset.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1702.03197,
  title  = {Arabic Language Sentiment Analysis on Health Services},
  author = {Abdulaziz M. Alayba and Vasile Palade and Matthew England and Rahat Iqbal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03197},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Authors accepted version of submission for ASAR 2017

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