Papers by Dr. Maqbool Al-Maimani
2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), 2011
The amount of Arabic electronic information is growing drastically on the web. Statistics shows t... more The amount of Arabic electronic information is growing drastically on the web. Statistics shows that the number of Internet users in the Middle East has increased enormously since the year 2000 due to increase in ICT awareness and its importance within Arab countries. As a result this has raised the need to find effective methods and techniques for allocating and retrieving the Arabic-based content from the web. This paper presents major Information Retrieval (IR) tools and techniques and it highlights few challenges in this regard.
There is a need to find more effective techniques to extract, classify, represent and summarize c... more There is a need to find more effective techniques to extract, classify, represent and summarize customers’ online opinions on products and services for better sentiment analysis. The aim of this thesis is to enhance aspect level opinion extraction and representation. This study uses SentiWordNet lexical resource which is specifically built for opinion mining and widely used in sentiment analysis. This research introduces an approach using adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns (AVAN) which analyses all opinion word types for sentiment analysis and not only limited to adjectives and adverbs as have been conventionally done. SentiWordNet is used in this thesis to identify and analyze all word types for opinion extraction and representation. Opinion representation is enhanced by capturing key elements of opinions into predicates that consists of opinion word, strength, score and category in order to improve the opinion representation and classification. Then it further enhances the minin...
Journal of theoretical and applied information technology, 2014
Web2.0 has contributed tremendously towards the rapid growth of web contents which ensures that c... more Web2.0 has contributed tremendously towards the rapid growth of web contents which ensures that customers utilize existing blogs, discussion forums, e-commerce and many other sites to express their opinions and read reviews of other people on different products and services which they plan to procure. Such an online wealth of information over the web has helped customers, firms, manufacturers, service providers, social and government units to take proper decision to procure or enhance various products and services. This practice has triggered the need to enhance existing methods and techniques to extract and summarize opinions from different online reviews. This paper surveys recent and leading methods and techniques that are used for opinion mining and then outlines available resources which have been developed in this regard. The paper also presents few challenges and open issues that need to be addressed and researched in more depth in order to improve the way opinions are extrac...
... Maqbool R. Al-Maimani1, Ahmed Al-Naamany2, Ahmed Zaki Abu Bakar3 T 76 ... University, Stanfor... more ... Maqbool R. Al-Maimani1, Ahmed Al-Naamany2, Ahmed Zaki Abu Bakar3 T 76 ... University, Stanford, CA , USA [3] Haider Moukdad, Lost In Cyberspace: How Do Search Engines Handle Arabic Queries? [4] Hyder K. Al Ameed, Shaikha O. Al Ketbi, Amna A. Al Kaabi, Khadija S ...
In recent years the amount of opinions and reviews available on the web has grown tremendously an... more In recent years the amount of opinions and reviews available on the web has grown tremendously and therefore the role of sentiment analysis is even more crucial than before. Given the very ambiguous and imprecise nature of sentiments and of their expressions, this study focuses on the review of semantic and fuzzy aspects of opinion mining. Opinions are fuzzy in nature and dealing with the semantic part of the expressed sentiments possesses many challenges and require effective techniques to properly extract and summarize people's views. Previous studies have often reflected that the use of fuzzy logic techniques have proved to be beneficial in mining reviews. This paper presents a review covering the semantic and Fuzzybased logic techniques and methods in sentiment analysis and challenges appear in the field.
The amount of Arabic electronic information is growing drastically on the web. Statistics shows t... more The amount of Arabic electronic information is growing drastically on the web. Statistics shows that the number of Internet users in the Middle East has increased enormously since the year 2000 due to increase in ICT awareness and its importance within Arab countries. As a result this has raised the need to find effective methods and techniques for allocating and retrieving the Arabic-based content from the web. This paper presents major Information Retrieval (IR) tools and techniques and it highlights few challenges in this regard.
The amount of Arabic electronic information is growing drastically on the web. Statistics shows t... more The amount of Arabic electronic information is growing drastically on the web. Statistics shows that the number of Internet users in the Middle East has increased enormously since the year 2000 due to increase in ICT awareness and its importance within Arab countries. As a result this has raised the need to find effective methods and techniques for allocating and retrieving the Arabic-based content from the web. This paper presents major Information Retrieval (IR) tools and techniques and it highlights few challenges in this regard.
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Papers by Dr. Maqbool Al-Maimani