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Effective lexicon-based approach for Urdu sentiment analysis

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 2521-2548

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-019-09740-5

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Sentiment analysis; Urdu sentiment lexicon; Urdu sentiment analyzer

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The lexicon-based approach is used for sentiment analysis of Urdu. In the lexicon, apart from the traditional approach of having adjectives, nouns and negations we have also included verbs, intensifiers and context-dependent words. An effective Urdu sentiment analyzer is developed that applies rules and make use of this new lexicon and perform Urdu sentiment analysis by classifying sentences as positive, negative or neutral. Evaluating this Urdu sentiment analyzer, by using sentences from Urdu blogs, yields the most promising results so far in Urdu language with 89.03% accuracy with 0.86 precision, 0.90 recall and 0.88 F-measure. Results are evaluated using kappa statistics as well. The comparison with the previous work in Urdu shows that the combination of this Urdu sentiment lexicon and Urdu sentiment analyzer is much more effective than the previous such combinations. The main reason for increased efficiency is the development of wide coverage lexicon and effective handling of negations, intensifiers and context-dependent words by the Urdu sentiment analyzer.

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