Sentiment after translation: A case-study on Arabic social media posts

NAACL HLT 2015 - 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 767-777

  Salameh, Mohammad ^a   Mohammad, Saif M ^b   Kiritchenko, Svetlana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARABIC TEXTS; HUMAN ABILITIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOURCE LANGUAGE;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84958171534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/n15-1078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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