Opinion Mining Techniques and Tools: A Case Study on an Arab Newspaper

Opinion mining or sentiment analysis is a type of natural language processing that extracts the knowledge of people by means of opinion about a particular topic. The identification of opinion sentiment orientation (positive, negative and neutral) is an essential part of the opinion mining process. This article presents tools and techniques of opinion mining. Related work has been presented. Also, an experiment done on NEWS ARAB newspaper is also conducted. The newspaper text was preprocessed and then term frequency was calculated. The main goal of the experiment was to identify the overall polarity of the newspaper. The results show that the newspaper is more oriented to political news. Furthermore, more opinion techniques could be applied to the newspaper corpus.