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the thesis about Aspect Level Sentiment Classification for Arabic Language.
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Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Language
1. Aspect Level Sentiment
Classification For Arabic
Language
Mahmoud El Razzaz
ISSR.CU
Under the Supervision of
Dr. Mohamed Farouk
Prof. Dr. Hesham A. Hefny
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4. What is Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment Classification is a sub domain of
text Classification or text categorization.
Text classification is concerned with
automatically identify the category or the
domain of a text document (Political,
Financial, … etc.,)
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5. What is Sentiment Analysis
Identifying the opinion in a piece of text
My Phone
is awesome!
[ Sentimental ]
My phone has
5MP camera
[ Factual ]
My Phone
is horrible!
[ Sentimental ]
It can be generalized over a wider set of
emotions
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6. Advantages
>>A lower cost than traditional methods of getting customer
insight.
>>A faster way of getting insight from customer data.
>>The ability to act on customer suggestions.
>>Identifies an organisation's Strengths,
Opportunities & Threats (SWOT Analysis) .
Weaknesses,
>>More accurate and insightful customer perceptions and
feedback.
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8. Document Level Sentiment Analysis
The task at this level is to classify whether a whole
opinion document express a positive or negative
sentiment.
Researchers developed machine learning classifiers to
classify document level sentiments for both English
Language [1] and Also Arabic Language [2]
References:
[1] Pang, Bo, Lillian Lee, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. Thumbs up?:
Sentiment classification using machine learning techniques. In Proceedings of
Conference on Empirical methods in Natural Language processing (EMNLP-2002). 2002.
[2] Mohamed Aly and Amir Atiya: LABR: A Large Scale Arabic Book Reviews Dataset. In
Proceedinds of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
Pages 494-498 Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9-2013.
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9. Document Level Sentiment Analysis
This level of Analysis assumes that each document
expresses opinions on a single entity (e.g., a single
product). Thus, it is not applicable to documents which
evaluate or compare multiple entities.
Example in English: positive Sentiment about a smart phone [1]
“My mpop is very amazing even thought its battery drains fast the
performance and the speed of the phone is very good even in playing high
graphic games the camera is bright ”
Example In Arabic: positive Sentiment about a book [2]
“
”
References:
[1] www.gsmarena.com
[2] www.goodreeds.com
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10. Sentence Level Sentiment Analysis
The task at this level goes to the sentences and
determines whether each sentence expressed a positive,
negative, or neutral opinion.
Neutral usually means no opinion.
Ex.,
The poverty
of India is
decreasing
Reference:
N. Farra, E. Challita, R. Assi, and H. Hajj. Sentence-Level and Document-Level
Sentiment mining for Arabic Texts. In proceedings of International Conference on data
mining workshops. Pages 1114-1119. IEEE, 2010
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11. Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis
Why Aspect Level is better represent of a product
review?
Document and sentence level assumes that each
document evaluates one entity.
Even though that does not mean that in positive
opinions the author of the review has a positive opinion
about all aspects of the product.
Likewise, a negative opinion document does not mean
that the author is negative about every thing.
For more complete Analysis we need to discover the
aspects and determine whether the sentiment is positive
or negative on each aspect.
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12. Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis
Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis is based on the idea
that an opinion consists of a sentiment (positive or
negative) and target of opinion “Aspect”.
Realizing the importance of opinion targets also helps us
understand the sentiment analysis problem better.
For example, “although the service is not that great,
I Still love this restaurant.” clearly has a positive tone, we
can not say that this sentence is entirely positive. In fact
it is positive about the restaurant but negative about the
service.
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13. Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis
Example
“My mpop is very amazing even thought its
battery drains fast the performance and the
speed of the phone is very good even in playing
high graphic games the camera is bright ”
The Sentiment on mpop, performance, speed
and camera is positive.
The sentiment on the battery is negative.
The mpop, performance, speed and battery are the
opinion targets
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14. Advantages of Aspect Level Sentiment
Analysis
Based on this level of analysis a structured summary of
opinions about entities and their aspects can be produced.
Reference:
Tun Thura Thet, Jin-Cheon Na and Christopher S.G. Khoo: “Aspect-based sentiment
analysis of movie reviews on discussion boards” Journal of Information Science 2010
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15. Advantages of Aspect Level Sentiment
Analysis
Thus it would be more useful for both customers and
service provider or product producers.
- For product producers or service providers they would know
exactly what are the main aspects of the product/service that customers
are not satisfied about rather than just knowing that customers are not
satisfied about the service or product in general.
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16. Advantages of Aspect Level Sentiment
Analysis
For customers it would be more important and this is because each
customer usually concerned about a few number of product features
“Aspects” and do not care about the other features. Thus customers
may concentrate on the aspects the care much about rather than having
an overall review of other users about the product or service.
For example some may be concerned about the life time of the battery,
the quality of the camera and the clearance of the screen while shows
no concern about the color, weight and the insurance period of the
mobile phone thus using aspect analysis would give customers a brief
summary of user opinions specifically about each aspect of the mobile
so he can decide which is better for him.
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17. Challenges and Difficulties
Both the Document Level and sentence level classifications are already highly
Challenging. The aspect-level is even more difficult. It constricts or several
sub-problems:
1- Entity Extraction.
2- Entity categorization (picture, image and photo are the same aspects for cameras)
Each entity category should have a unique name in a particular application.
3- implicit Entities (this book is expensive)
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18. Challenges and Difficulties (continuous)
Difficulties related to Arabic language
1- Rare resources (few number of Arabic datasets are available)
2- Rare resources (few NLP tools are available for Arabic Slang)
3- The variance of Arabic dialects or tones from country to country.
(ex., 3eda gamda gedan bas el battery taba3ha yefda bsor3a)
4- Some Arabic natives writes reviews in Franco Arab and some other write
reviews in multiple languages. Ex., :
apps
Asha
Reference:
Soha Ahmed, Michel Pasquier, and Ghassan Qadah: “Key issues in conducting
sentiment analysis on arabic social media texts” 2012
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19. Related work
Recently researchers bayed more attention to the problem of sentiment
analysis for Arabic language such as:
- Mohamed El Arnaoty et al., who provided “a machine learning approach for
opinion holder extraction in Arabic language” 2012
-Mohamed Aly et al., who provided “A Large Scale Arabic Book reviews Data
Set” 2013.
-Also a Survey on Sentiment And Subjectivity Analysis of Arabic were
introduced by Mohamed Korayem et al., in “Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis of Arabic: A Survey” 2012.
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20. Related work
- Furthermore the difficulties of applying sentiment classification in Arabic
Language were disused by Soha Ahmed et al., in “Key Issues in Conducting
Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Social Media Text” 2010.
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21. Some of the Review Websites
www.goodreads.com (book reviews)
www.gsmarena.com (mobile phones reviews)
www.dbpreview.com (digital cameras reviews)
www.burrrp.com (restaurants reviews)
www.mouthshut.com (reviews on multiple subjects)
www.justdial.com (movies reviews)
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23. Objective
Construct An aspect level sentiment classification
system to automatically Summarize the Arabic
sentiments of users of a specific product or service.
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24. Work plan
1. Overview of Data collection
2. Overview of data preprocessing (entity extraction, entity
categorization, feature selection, and feature extraction)
3. Overview of the Sentiment Analysis levels and techniques
4. The proposed approach for Sentiment Analysis: Aspect Level
Sentiment classification.
5. Testing the proposal approach and comparing the results with
related work.
6. Conclusion and future work.
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