Title
Multi-Channel Embedding Convolutional Neural Network Model for Arabic Sentiment Classification
Abstract
With the advent of social network services, Arabs’ opinions on the web have attracted many researchers in recent years toward detecting and classifying sentiments in Arabic tweets and reviews. However, the impact of word embeddings vectors (WEVs) initialization and dataset balance on Arabic sentiment classification using deep learning has not been thoroughly studied. In this article, a multi-channel embedding convolutional neural network (MCE-CNN) is proposed to improve Arabic sentiment classification by learning sentiment features from different text domains, word, and character n-grams levels. MCE-CNN encodes a combination of different pre-trained word embeddings into the embedding block at each embedding channel and trains these channels in parallel. Besides, a separate feature extraction module implemented in a CNN block is used to extract more relevant sentiment features. These channels and blocks help to start training on high-quality WEVs and fine-tuning them. The performance of MCE-CNN is evaluated on several standard balanced and imbalanced datasets to reflect real-world use cases. Experimental results show that MCE-CNN provides a high classification accuracy and benefits from the second embedding channel on both standard Arabic and dialectal Arabic text, which outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3314941
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Arabic language, Arabic sentiment classification, Arabic word embeddings, convolutional neural network, deep learning, multi-channel, neural language models
Use case,Social network,Embedding,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Communication channel,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Deep learning,Initialization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
4
2375-4699
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abdelghani Dahou152.04
Shengwu Xiong218953.59
Junwei Zhou311816.64
Mohamed Abd El Aziz428421.93