Arabic Sentiment Analysis Problems and Challenges

Abstract

Arabic Sentiment Analysis (ASA) has obtained a great interest from the research community with the increasing interest in social media. This is thanks to a large variety of helpful applications that can be derived from analyzing sentiments. Although there are various tools that were created to select opinions, they can be only utilized for other languages. This presents the necessity for providing more attention to ASA research domain. For that reason, this detailed study tries to explore the problems and challenges of analyzing Arabic sentiments contents. This detailed study can be considered as a valuable step toward defining great solutions for ASA research field. In addition, presenting these problems and challenges may encourage researchers to participate more in this research field, make more improvements and gain the great results in various domains especially in the field of education.