SAMAR: Subjectivity and sentiment analysis for Arabic social media
SAMAR: Subjectivity and sentiment analysis for Arabic social media
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DOI:
10.1016/j.csl.2013.03.001
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Kuebler, Sandra
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作者:
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad;Diab, Mona;Kuebler, Sandra
SAMAR is a system for subjectivity and sentiment analysis (SSA) for Arabic social media genres. Arabic is a morphologically rich language, which presents significant complexities for standard approaches to building SSA systems designed for the English language. Apart from the difficulties presented by the social media genres processing, the Arabic language inherently has a high number of variable word forms leading to data sparsity. In this context, we address the following 4 pertinent issues: how to best represent lexical information; whether standard features used for English are useful for Arabic; how to handle Arabic dialects; and, whether genre specific features have a measurable impact on performance. Our results show that using either lemma or lexeme information is helpful, as well as using the two part of speech tagsets (RTS and ERTS). However, the results show that we need individualized solutions for each genre and task, but that lemmatization and the ERTS POS tagset are present in a majority of the settings. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.