TY - GEN
T1 - SLSA
T2 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015
AU - Eskander, Ramy
AU - Rambow, Owen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Sentiment analysis has been a major area of interest, for which the existence of highquality resources is crucial. In Arabic, there is a reasonable number of sentiment lexicons but with major deficiencies. The paper presents a large-scale Standard Arabic Sentiment Lexicon (SLSA) that is publicly available for free and avoids the deficiencies in the current resources. SLSA has the highest up-to-date reported coverage. The construction of SLSA is based on linking the lexicon of AraMorph with SentiWordNet along with a few heuristics and powerful back-off. SLSA shows a relative improvement of 37.8% over a state-of-theart lexicon when tested for accuracy. It also outperforms it by an absolute 3.5% of Fl-score when tested for sentiment analysis.
AB - Sentiment analysis has been a major area of interest, for which the existence of highquality resources is crucial. In Arabic, there is a reasonable number of sentiment lexicons but with major deficiencies. The paper presents a large-scale Standard Arabic Sentiment Lexicon (SLSA) that is publicly available for free and avoids the deficiencies in the current resources. SLSA has the highest up-to-date reported coverage. The construction of SLSA is based on linking the lexicon of AraMorph with SentiWordNet along with a few heuristics and powerful back-off. SLSA shows a relative improvement of 37.8% over a state-of-theart lexicon when tested for accuracy. It also outperforms it by an absolute 3.5% of Fl-score when tested for sentiment analysis.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84959894971
U2 - 10.18653/v1/d15-1304
DO - 10.18653/v1/d15-1304
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959894971
T3 - Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
SP - 2545
EP - 2550
BT - Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 17 September 2015 through 21 September 2015
ER -