A System for Sentiment Analysis of Colloquial Arabic Using Human Computation

Table 1

Sample output of the pattern matching approach.

Sentence	Pattern	Correct classification	Found pattern classification
للأسف كنت أقدر هالمطعم	neg, neu, ent	Negative	neg (freq = 3); pos (freq = 1)
وأسعارهم مناسبة	ent, pos	Positive	pos (freq = 90); neu (freq = 2); neg (freq = 1)
الأسعار عادية	ent, neu	Positive	neu (freq = 34); pos (freq = 25); neg (freq = 2)
المطعم جيّد لكنه عادي ولا شيء يميزه	ent, pos, neu, neg, neu, pos	Neutral	(Not found)