Discovering Semantic and Sentiment Correlations using Short Informal Arabic Language Text

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 8(1), 2017 ; Semantic and Sentiment analysis have received a great deal of attention over the last few years due to the important role they play in many different fields, including marketing, education, and politics. Social media has given tremendous opportunities for researchers to collect huge amount of data as input for their semantic and sentiment analysis. Using twitter API, we collected around 4.5 million Arabic tweets and used them to propose a novel automatic unsupervised approach to capture patterns of words and sentences of similar contextual semantics and sentiment in informal Arabic language at word and sentence levels. We used Language Modeling (LM) model which is statistical model that can estimate the distribution of natural language in effective way. The results of experiments of proposed model showed better performance than classic bigram and latent semantic analysis (LSA) model in most of cases at word level. In order to handle the big data, we used different text processing techniques followed by removal of the unique words based on their rele Informal Arabic, Big Data, Sentiment analysis, Opinion Mining (OM), semantic analysis, bigram model, LSA model, Twitter vance to problem. ; http://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume8No1/Paper_26-Discovering_Semantic_and_Sentiment_Correlations.pdf