Using Tweets and Emojis to Build TEAD: an Arabic Dataset for Sentiment Analysis

Authors

  • Houssem Abdellaoui National Higher Engineering School of Tunis: ENSIT, Research Laboratory LaTICE, Tunisia
  • Mounir Zrigui University of Monastir, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Tunisia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-3-3031

Keywords:

Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, modern standard arabic, arabic dialect, sentiment dataset, emojis, sentiment lexicon

Abstract

Our paper presents a distant supervision algorithm for automatically collecting and labeling ‘TEAD’, a dataset for Arabic Sentiment Analysis (SA), using emojis and sentiment lexicons. The data was gathered from Twitter during the period between the 1st of June and the 30th of November 2017. Although the idea of using emojis to collect and label training data for SA, is not novel, getting this approach to work for Arabic dialect was very challenging. We ended up with more than 6 million tweets labeled as Positive, Negative or Neutral. We present the algorithm used to deal with mixed-content tweets (Modern Standard Arabic MSA and Dialect Arabic DA). We also provide properties and statistics of the dataset along side experiments results. Our try outs covered a wide range of standard classifiers proved to be efficient for sentiment classification problem.

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Published

2018-09-26

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (2018): Thematic issue on Natural Language Processing (Guest Editor: A. Gelbukh)

Section

Articles of the Thematic Issue

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