Hybrid sentiment analyser for Arabic tweets using R

Abstract

Harvesting meaning out of massively increasing data could be of great value for organizations. Twitter is one of the biggest public and freely available data sources. This paper presents a Hybrid learning implementation to sentiment analysis combining lexicon and supervised approaches. Analysing Arabic, Saudi dialect Twitter tweets to extract sentiments toward a specific topic. This was done using a dataset consisting of 3000 tweets collected in three domains. The obtained results confirm the superiority of the hybrid learning approach over the supervised and unsupervised approaches.