ILab-Edinburgh at SemEval-2016 task 7: A hybrid approach for determining sentiment intensity of Arabic Twitter phrases

SemEval 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 474-480

  Refaee, Eshrag ^a   Rieser, Verena ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

HYBRID APPROACH; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; RULE-BASED METHOD; SET OF RULES; SUPERVISED METHODS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85035133412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/s16-1077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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