Dialectal Arabic sentiment analysis based on tree-based pipeline optimization tool

Abstract

The heavy involvement of the Arabic internet users resulted in spreading data written in the Arabic language and creating a vast research area regarding natural language processing (NLP). Sentiment analysis is a growing field of research that is of great importance to everyone considering the high added potential for decision-making and predicting upcoming actions using the texts produced in social networks. Arabic used in microblogging websites, especially Twitter, is highly informal. It is not compliant with neither standards nor spelling regulations making it quite challenging for automatic machine-learning techniques. In this paper’s scope, we propose a new approach based on AutoML methods to improve the efficiency of the sentiment classification process for dialectal Arabic. This approach was validated through benchmarks testing on three different datasets that represent three vernacular forms of Arabic. The obtained results show that the presented framework has significantly increased accuracy than similar works in the literature.