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Dataset Built for Arabic Sentiment Analysis

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Web-based social networking organizations, for instance, Facebook and Twitter and web based systems administration encouraging locales, for instance, Flickr and YouTube have ended up being dynamically well known in later quite a while. One key variable to the social media websites like Twitter, facebook is that these worldwide allow people to express and give their experiences, likes, and loathes, energetically and direct. The appraisals posted degree from impugning government authorities to discussing first class cricket people, alluding to top news, evaluating movies, and proposing new things et cetera. This headway has controlled another field known as sentiment analysis. This rising field has pulled in an endless research intrigue, however most of the ebb and flow work focuses on English substance, with less commitment to Arabic. Arabic Sentiment Analysis focusses on datasets and dictionaries, however less endeavors and commitment to this upsets the achievement in Sentiment Arabic when we discuss Arabic. Thus, in this proposition, we considered slant examination of Arabic as the key concentration and bolster the analysts in this field by building up a dataset from web based systems administration site, to be particular Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Keek, because of wide utilization of these by Arabic Community to impart their insights and surveys. Specifically, we pondered surveys/tweets from Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Keek, which pass on a Sentiment. We tried this dataset in a previous work and the performance achieved in terms of accuracy was 77.75%. We assessed our framework by giving our dataset to three Arabic local speakers who additionally affirmed the validness of the dataset created.

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    https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Twitter+Data+set+for+Arabic+Sentiment+Analysis.

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    http://www.sananalytics.com/lab/twitter-sentiment/.

  3. 3.

    https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task2/.

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    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/TweetNLP/.

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Salem Al Mukhaiti, A.J., Siddiqui, S., Shaalan, K. (2018). Dataset Built for Arabic Sentiment Analysis. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017. AISI 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 639. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_38

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