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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120913
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An Enhanced Feature Acquisition for Sentiment Analysis of English and Hausa Tweets

Author 1: Amina Imam Abubakar
Author 2: Abubakar Roko
Author 3: Aminu Muhammad Bui
Author 4: Ibrahim Saidu

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 9, 2021.

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Abstract: Due to the continuous and rapid growth of social media, opinionated contents are actively created by users in different languages about various products, services, events, and political parties. The automated classification of these contents prompted the need for multilingual sentiment analysis researches. However, the majority of research efforts are devoted to English and Arabic, English and German, English and French languages, while a great share of information is available in other languages such as Hausa. This paper proposes multilingual sentiment analysis of English and Hausa tweets using an Enhanced Feature Acquisition Method (EFAM). The method uses machine learning approach to integrate two newly defined Hausa features (Hausa Lexical Feature and Hausa Sentiment Intensifiers) and English feature to measure classification performance and to synthesize a more accurate sentiment classification procedure. The approach has been evaluated using several experiments with different classifiers in both monolingual and multilingual datasets. The experimental results reveal the effectiveness of the approach in enhancing feature integration for multilingual sentiment analysis. Similarly, by using features drawn from multiple languages, we can construct machine learning classifiers with an average precision of over 65%.

Keywords: Multilingual sentiment analysis; sentiment analysis; social media; machine learning

Amina Imam Abubakar, Abubakar Roko, Aminu Muhammad Bui and Ibrahim Saidu, “An Enhanced Feature Acquisition for Sentiment Analysis of English and Hausa Tweets” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(9), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120913

@article{Abubakar2021,
title = {An Enhanced Feature Acquisition for Sentiment Analysis of English and Hausa Tweets},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120913},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120913},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {9},
author = {Amina Imam Abubakar and Abubakar Roko and Aminu Muhammad Bui and Ibrahim Saidu}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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