A Comprehensive Survey of Contemporary Arabic Sentiment Analysis: Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing literature on Arabic sentiment analysis is limited, compared to high-resourced languages such as English and French. |
| Approach: | They present a systematic review of existing literature on Arabic sentiment analysis focusing on research utilizing deep learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods highlight gaps in the literature on Arabic sentiment analysis and outline promising directions for future research. |
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