Sentiment Analysis for Roman Urdu.

AYESHA RAFIQUE; Muhammad Kamran Malik; Zubair Nawaz; Faisal Bukhari; Akhtar Hussain Jalbani

doi:10.22581/muet1982.1902.20

Author(s)

AYESHA RAFIQUE Department of Information Technology, University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Kamran Malik Department of Information Technology, University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Zubair Nawaz Department of Information Technology, University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Faisal Bukhari Department of Information Technology, University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Akhtar Hussain Jalbani Department of Information Technology, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology, Nawabshah, Pakistan

Abstract

The majority of online comments/opinions are written in text-free format. Sentiment Analysis can be used as a measure to express the polarity (positive/negative) of comments/opinions. These comments/ opinions can be in different languages i.e. English, Urdu, Roman Urdu, Hindi, Arabic etc. Mostly, people have worked on the sentiment analysis of the English language. Very limited research work has been done in Urdu or Roman Urdu languages. Whereas, Hindi/Urdu is the third largest language in the world. In this paper, we focus on the sentiment analysis of comments/opinions in Roman Urdu. There is no publicly available Roman Urdu public opinion dataset. We prepare a dataset by taking comments/opinions of people in Roman Urdu from different websites. Three supervised machine learning algorithms namely NB (Naive Bayes), LRSGD (Logistic Regression with Stochastic Gradient Descent) and SVM (Support Vector Machine) have been applied on this dataset. From results of experiments, it can be concluded that SVM performs better than NB and LRSGD in terms of accuracy. In case of SVM, an accuracy of 87.22% is achieved.

Publication Details

Page(s) 463-470

DOI 10.22581/muet1982.1902.20

Published Journal: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Year: 2019

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