NileTMRG at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Arabic Sentiment Analysis

Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Mona El Kalamawy, Abu Bakr Soliman


Abstract
This paper describes two systems that were used by the NileTMRG for addressing Arabic Sentiment Analysis as part of SemEval-2017, task 4. NileTMRG participated in three Arabic related subtasks which are: Subtask A (Message Polarity Classification), Subtask B (Topic-Based Message Polarity classification) and Subtask D (Tweet quantification). For subtask A, we made use of NU’s sentiment analyzer which we augmented with a scored lexicon. For subtasks B and D, we used an ensemble of three different classifiers. The first classifier was a convolutional neural network that used trained (word2vec) word embeddings. The second classifier consisted of a MultiLayer Perceptron while the third classifier was a Logistic regression model that takes the same input as the second classifier. Voting between the three classifiers was used to determine the final outcome. In all three Arabic related tasks in which NileTMRG participated, the team ranked at number one.
Anthology ID:
S17-2133
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
790–795
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S17-2133
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2133
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Cite (ACL):
Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Mona El Kalamawy, and Abu Bakr Soliman. 2017. NileTMRG at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Arabic Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 790–795, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NileTMRG at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Arabic Sentiment Analysis (El-Beltagy et al., SemEval 2017)
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