Arabic Sentiment Analysis for Twitter Data: A Systematic Literature Review

Social media platforms have a huge impact on our daily lives. They have succeeded in attracting many people to spend time communicating and expressing themselves. Twitter is a social media platform that could be considered as a source of public opinion about products, services, and events. Sentiment analysis is the art of studying public feelings about certain topics, which may be positive, negative, or neutral. This paper provides a systematic review of Arabic tweet sentiment analysis on papers published from 2012 to 2021 in digital libraries including IEEE Explorer, Science Direct, Springer Link, and Google Scholar. The main aim of this systematic review is to investigate the trends in the topics reported and to highlight potential new research lines. To achieve that, three main stages were implemented: planning, conducting, and reporting the review. Our findings suggest the need for an open-source large Arabic tweet dataset that can be used by researchers. Also, it was found that researchers have used various classification techniques, which led to different results.