Aara' - A system for mining the polarity of Saudi public opinion through e-newspaper comments

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 398-410

  Azmi, Aqil M ^a   Alzanin, Samah M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic NLP; Colloquial Arabic; Naive Bayes; Public sentiment; Revised n gram

Indexed keywords

NEWSPRINT;

ARABIC NLP; COLLOQUIAL ARABICS; NAIVE BAYES; PUBLIC SENTIMENTS; REVISED N-GRAM;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84902174351     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551514524675     Document Type: Article

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