Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Twitter Feeds

ANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 174-179

  Refaee, Eshrag ^a   Rieser, Verena ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

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

LARGE AMOUNTS; LEARN+; LEXICON-BASED; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE GAIN; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING;

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85079102904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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