An Arabic twitter corpus for subjectivity and sentiment analysis

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2268-2273

  Refaee, Eshrag ^a   Rieser, Verena ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabic; Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ARABIC; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DATA SET; FEATURE SETS; GOLD STANDARDS; SEMI- SUPERVISED LEARNING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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