Arabic Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Literature Review
Table 2
Inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Inclusion
Exclusion
Articles published between January 2013 and November 2018
Nonacademic articles and gray literature, including working papers and technical reports
Using relative keywords
Articles with weak writing and analysis
Prestige and academic papers and articles
Articles about natural language processing (NLP) and its applications, such as speech recognition, fact-checking systems, handwritten words recognition, and named entity recognition
The research focuses on sentiment analysis classification
Articles about other classifications, such as emotions classification and identifying a dialect
The research was related to Arabic language
Articles address only building a resource for SA, such as lexicon or corpus
Articles written in English
Duplicated and review articles
Articles presenting research in non-Arabic language, such as Arabizi, English, and Urdu
