Over a decade of social opinion mining: a systematic review

K Cortis, B Davis - Artificial intelligence review, 2021 - Springer
Social media popularity and importance is on the increase due to people using it for various
types of social interaction across multiple channels. This systematic review focuses on the …

Can Character-based Language Models Improve Downstream Task Performance in Low-Resource and Noisy Language Scenarios?

A Riabi, B Sagot, D Seddah - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13658, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent impressive improvements in NLP, largely based on the success of contextual neural
language models, have been mostly demonstrated on at most a couple dozen high-resource …

Identifying code-switching in Arabizi

S Shehadi, S Wintner - Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
We describe a corpus of social media posts that include utterances in Arabizi, a Roman-
script rendering of Arabic, mixed with other languages, notably English, French, and Arabic …

Improved Knowledge Distillation for Pre-trained Language Models via Knowledge Selection

C Wang, Y Lu, Y Mu, Y Hu, T Xiao, J Zhu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00444, 2023 - arxiv.org
Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher
model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge …

Introducing a large Tunisian Arabizi dialectal dataset for sentiment analysis

C Fourati, H Haddad, A Messaoudi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Abstract On various Social Media platforms, people, tend to use the informal way to
communicate, or write posts and comments: their local dialects. In Africa, more than 1500 …

Ubc-dlnlp at semeval-2023 task 12: Impact of transfer learning on african sentiment analysis

G Bhatia, I Adebara, AR Elmadany… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We describe our contribution to the SemEVAl 2023 AfriSenti-SemEval shared task, where
we tackle the task of sentiment analysis in 14 different African languages. We develop both …

A Comparative Study of Effective Approaches for Arabic Text Classification

M Berrimi, M Oussalah, A Moussaoui… - Available at SSRN …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Text classification emerged as one of the main applications of natural language processing
tasks such as topical analysis, sentiment analysis, and news classification where several …

Pre-trained models or feature engineering: The case of dialectal Arabic

KA Kwaik, S Chatzikyriakidis… - … Tasks on Qur'an QA and …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The usage of social media platforms has resulted in the proliferation of work on Arabic
Natural Language Processing (ANLP), including the development of resources. There is …

[PDF][PDF] Pre-trained models or feature engineering: the case of dialectal arabic

C Qwaider, S Chatzikyriakidis… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
The usage of social media platforms has resulted in the proliferation of work on Arabic
Natural Language Processing (ANLP), including the development of resources. There is …

Extracting Features from Text Flows based on Semantic Similarity for Text Classification: an Approach Inspired by Audio Analysis

LL Vasconcelos, CEC Campelo - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2024 - journals-sol.sbc.org.br
Text classification is a mainly investigated challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
research. The higher performance of a classification model depends on a representation …