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With increasing interest in sentiment analysis research and opinionated web content always on the rise, focus on analysis of text in various domains and different languages is a relevant and important task. This paper explores the problems of sentiment analysis and opinion strength measurement using a rule-based approach tailored to the Arabic language. The approach takes into account language-specific traits that are valuable to syntactically segment a text, and allow for closer analysis of opinion-bearing language queues. By using an adapted sentiment lexicon along with sets of opinion indicators, a rule-based methodology for opinion-phrase extraction is introduced, followed by a method to rate the parsed opinions and offer a measure of opinion strength for the text under analysis. The proposed method, even with a small set of rules, shows potential for a simple and scalable opinion-rating system, which is of particular interest for morphologically-rich languages such as Arabic.
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Oraby, S., El-Sonbaty, Y., Abou El-Nasr, M. (2013). Finding Opinion Strength Using Rule-Based Parsing for Arabic Sentiment Analysis. In: Castro, F., Gelbukh, A., González, M. (eds) Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications. MICAI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45111-9_44
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