Sentiment Analysis for Arabic in Social Media Network: A Systematic Mapping Study

Abstract: With the expansion in tenders on the Internet and social media, Arabic Sentiment Analysis (ASA) has assumed a significant position in the field of text mining study and has since remained used to explore the sentiments of users about services, various products or topics conversed over the Internet. This mapping paper designs to comprehensively investigate the papers demographics, fertility, and directions of the ASA research domain. Furthermore, plans to analyze current ASA techniques and find movements in the research. This paper describes a systematic mapping study (SMS) of 51 primary selected studies (PSS) is handled with the approval of an evidence-based systematic method to ensure handling of all related papers. The analyzed results showed the increase of both the ASA research area and numbers of publications per year since 2015. Three main research facets were found, i.e. validation, solution, and evaluation research, with solution research becoming more treatment than another research type. Therefore numerous contribution facets were singled out. In totality, the general demographics of the ASA research field were highlighted and discussed