Hybrid Sentiment Analyser for Arabic Tweets using R

Sarah Alhumoud, Tarfa Albuhairi, Wejdan Alohaideb

2015

Abstract

Harvesting meaning out of massively increasing data could be of great value for organizations. Twitter is one of the biggest public and freely available data sources. This paper presents a Hybrid learning implementation to sentiment analysis combining lexicon and supervised approaches. Analysing Arabic, Saudi dialect Twitter tweets to extract sentiments toward a specific topic. This was done using a dataset consisting of 3000 tweets collected in three domains. The obtained results confirm the superiority of the hybrid learning approach over the supervised and unsupervised approaches.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alhumoud S., Albuhairi T. and Alohaideb W. (2015). Hybrid Sentiment Analyser for Arabic Tweets using R . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 417-424. DOI: 10.5220/0005616204170424

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir15,
author={Sarah Alhumoud and Tarfa Albuhairi and Wejdan Alohaideb},
title={Hybrid Sentiment Analyser for Arabic Tweets using R},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={417-424},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005616204170424},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2015)
TI - Hybrid Sentiment Analyser for Arabic Tweets using R
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Alhumoud S.
AU - Albuhairi T.
AU - Alohaideb W.
PY - 2015
SP - 417
EP - 424
DO - 10.5220/0005616204170424