Exploring the problems of sentiment analysis in informal Arabic

Sentiment Analysis Challenges of Informal Arabic Language

“…Indeed, a stemmer will sometimes identify the same root for both the informal word and the formal word, as is the case with the terms ٔ‫/ساح‬rahaah (formal) (-comfort‖ in English), and ‫ّشٗذ‬ /nrooha (informal) (-go‖ in English), both of which take the root ‫/سٗذ‬rooh [13]. Another key trait in Arabic social media is the use of compound phrases and idioms to express opinions; e.g., ‫ٍط٘ع‬ ‫ٝب‬ ‫ٗىذ‬ ‫/ٝب‬ya walad ya motaua (a negative expression that belittles someone pretending to be religious).…”

“…They use knowledge-based technique. There is a limitation in the number of Arabic sentiment lexicons, and the main challenge is to build lexicons for informal words [13].…”

“…Table IX shows pre-processing of tweets with repetition letters. In literature issue of detection of the repetition is discussed for situation with repetition only existing at the end of word [13]. …”

Discovering Semantic and Sentiment Correlations using Short Informal Arabic Language Text

“…Other researches have focused upon the lexicon-based approach, which, typically, is used less often in Arabic sentiment analysis because of the low number of existing Arabic sentiment lexicons. The main challenge here is in building lexicons for informal words, as [1] [16] [17] and [18]. These studies encourage researchers to contribute more extensively to the field.…”

“…There are wide numbers of users that use the social networks. They use social media in order to share various kinds of resources, express their opinions, thoughts, and messages in real time [1]. Since most of users use informal Arabic in the world of social media, the task of semantic and sentiment analysis becomes more sophisticated.…”