Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Food Delivery Reviews

Abstract

Business customers and consumers share their reviews online on social platforms such as Twitter. Therefore, Twitter data sentiment analysis is extremely useful for both research and commercial purposes. Manually analyzing reviews takes a long time and effort, hence, automatic sentiment analysis is required. In this article, we address aspect-based sentiment analysis for Arabic food delivery reviews using several deep learning approaches. In particular, we propose to use Transformer-based models (GigaBERT and AraBERT), Bi-LSTM-CRF, and LSTM, as well as a classical machine learning algorithm (SVM). We also present our dataset of food delivery service reviews, which we collected from Twitter. We annotated them and used them for training and evaluating our approaches. The experiments show that both GigaBERT and AraBERT outperformed the other models in all the tasks. The Transformer-based models received F1-scores of 77% in the aspect terms detection task, 82% in the Aspect category detection task, and 81% in the aspect polarity detection task, gaining 2%, 4%, and 4% over Bi-LSTM-CRF and LSTM in the first, second, and third tasks, respectively.