Open issues in the sentiment analysis of Arabic social media: A case study

2013 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-220

  El Beltagy, Samhaa R ^a   Ali, Ahmed ^b  

^a NILE UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabic; Microblogs; Opinion Mining; Sentiment Analysis; Sentiment Lexixons; Social Media

Indexed keywords

ARABIC; MICROBLOGS; OPINION MINING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SENTIMENT LEXIXONS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84881110252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Innovations.2013.6544421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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