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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.

Discourse-based Opinion Mining of Customer Responses to Telecommunications Services in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 Crisis

Author 1: Abdulfattah Omar

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130642

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 6, 2022.

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Abstract: This study used opinion mining theory and the potentials of artificial intelligence to explore the opinions, sentiments, and attitudes of customers expressed on Twitter regarding the services provided by the Saudi telecommunications companies during the COVID-19 crisis. A corpus of 12,458 Twitter posts was constructed covering the period 2020–2021. For data analysis, the study adopted a discourse-based mining approach, combining vector space classification (VSC) and collocation analysis. The results indicate that most users had negative attitudes and sentiments regarding the performance of the telecommunications companies during the pandemic, as reflected in both the lexical semantic properties and discoursal and thematic features of their Twitter posts. The study of collocates and the discoursal properties of the data was useful in attaining a deeper understanding of the users’ responses and attitudes to the performance of the telecommunications companies during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was not possible for text clustering based on the “bag of words” model alone to address the discoursal features in the corpus. Opinion mining applications, especially in Arabic, thus need to integrate discourse approaches to gain a better understanding of people’s opinions and attitudes regarding given issues.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; collocate analysis; COVID-19; discourse; opinion mining; vector space clustering

Abdulfattah Omar, “Discourse-based Opinion Mining of Customer Responses to Telecommunications Services in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 Crisis” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(6), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130642

@article{Omar2022,
title = {Discourse-based Opinion Mining of Customer Responses to Telecommunications Services in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 Crisis},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130642},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130642},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {6},
author = {Abdulfattah Omar}
}


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