Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Tweets for Road Traffic Congestion and Event Detection

Alomari, Ebtesam; Mehmood, Rashid; Katib, Iyad

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13705-2_2

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“…None of the existing works have reported a similar COVID-19 analysis of Twitter data in the Arabic language in terms of the modelling methods used and the depth of the analysis. The software developed for this work is part of the tool Iktishaf [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ] that we have been developing for the last few years. The ability of the tool to execute in parallel could save a month of computing time for the specific dataset size and the problem addressed in this paper and speed up the development process.…”

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COVID-19: Detecting Government Pandemic Measures and Public Concerns from Twitter Arabic Data Using Distributed Machine Learning

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Albeshri

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Today’s societies are connected to a level that has never been seen before. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of such an unprecedently connected world. As of 19 November 2020, over 56 million people have been infected with nearly 1.35 million deaths, and the numbers are growing. The state-of-the-art social media analytics for COVID-19-related studies to understand the various phenomena happening in our environment are limited and require many more studies. This paper proposes a software tool comprising a collection of unsupervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) machine learning and other methods for the analysis of Twitter data in Arabic with the aim to detect government pandemic measures and public concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tool is described in detail, including its architecture, five software components, and algorithms. Using the tool, we collect a dataset comprising 14 million tweets from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for the period 1 February 2020 to 1 June 2020. We detect 15 government pandemic measures and public concerns and six macro-concerns (economic sustainability, social sustainability, etc.), and formulate their information-structural, temporal, and spatio-temporal relationships. For example, we are able to detect the timewise progression of events from the public discussions on COVID-19 cases in mid-March to the first curfew on 22 March, financial loan incentives on 22 March, the increased quarantine discussions during March–April, the discussions on the reduced mobility levels from 24 March onwards, the blood donation shortfall late March onwards, the government’s 9 billion SAR (Saudi Riyal) salary incentives on 3 April, lifting the ban on five daily prayers in mosques on 26 May, and finally the return to normal government measures on 29 May 2020. These findings show the effectiveness of the Twitter media in detecting important events, government measures, public concerns, and other information in both time and space with no earlier knowledge about them.

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“…The software developed for this work is part of the tool Iktishaf [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ] that we have been developing for the last few years. Earlier work on this tool has focused mainly on mobility-related event detection using supervised learning.…”

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COVID-19: Detecting Government Pandemic Measures and Public Concerns from Twitter Arabic Data Using Distributed Machine Learning

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Katib

Albeshri

et al. 2021

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“…There are several challenges that hinder the development of tools for Twitter data analytics in the Arabic language, the greatest being the complexity of the language itself. Research on Twitter data analytics in Arabic has begun to appear in recent years in various application domains (detecting authors' genders [12], detecting traffic related events [18,20,38], finding restaurants' reputations [13]) but the progress has been slow. Moreover, some works are available in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), but in general (not specific to healthcare), the works on Arabic dialects are very limited in number and scope [10,14].…”

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“…The challenges in this respect include management, integration, and distributed computation of data including the difficulties related to managing the 4V characteristics of big data, i.e., volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. There have been some works on the use of big data platforms in Twitter data analytics in various languages but in different application domains [18][19][20][21][22][23]37,78,79]. To the best of our knowledge, no work has been reported that uses big data technologies for data analytics in healthcare using tweets in the Arabic language.…”

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Sehaa: A Big Data Analytics Tool for Healthcare Symptoms and Diseases Detection Using Twitter, Apache Spark, and Machine Learning

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Smartness, which underpins smart cities and societies, is defined by our ability to engage with our environments, analyze them, and make decisions, all in a timely manner. Healthcare is the prime candidate needing the transformative capability of this smartness. Social media could enable a ubiquitous and continuous engagement between healthcare stakeholders, leading to better public health. Current works are limited in their scope, functionality, and scalability. This paper proposes Sehaa, a big data analytics tool for healthcare in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) using Twitter data in Arabic. Sehaa uses Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, and multiple feature extraction methods to detect various diseases in the KSA. Sehaa found that the top five diseases in Saudi Arabia in terms of the actual afflicted cases are dermal diseases, heart diseases, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes. Riyadh and Jeddah need to do more in creating awareness about the top diseases. Taif is the healthiest city in the KSA in terms of the detected diseases and awareness activities. Sehaa is developed over Apache Spark allowing true scalability. The dataset used comprises 18.9 million tweets collected from November 2018 to September 2019. The results are evaluated using well-known numerical criteria (Accuracy and F1-Score) and are validated against externally available statistics.

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“…Alam et al [ 80 ] have developed an object recognition method for autonomous driving to improve the accuracy of vehicle recognition. Many other proposals on smart societies [ 81 ] exist, such as in transportation [ 25 , 65 , 69 , 71 , 82 ], healthcare [ 6 ], disaster management [ 83 ], logistics [ 66 , 84 ], and more.…”

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Distributed Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (DAIaaS) for Smarter IoE and 6G Environments

Janbi

Katib

Albeshri

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken us by storm, helping us to make decisions in everything we do, even in finding our “true love” and the “significant other”. While 5G promises us high-speed mobile internet, 6G pledges to support ubiquitous AI services through next-generation softwarization, heterogeneity, and configurability of networks. The work on 6G is in its infancy and requires the community to conceptualize and develop its design, implementation, deployment, and use cases. Towards this end, this paper proposes a framework for Distributed AI as a Service (DAIaaS) provisioning for Internet of Everything (IoE) and 6G environments. The AI service is “distributed” because the actual training and inference computations are divided into smaller, concurrent, computations suited to the level and capacity of resources available with cloud, fog, and edge layers. Multiple DAIaaS provisioning configurations for distributed training and inference are proposed to investigate the design choices and performance bottlenecks of DAIaaS. Specifically, we have developed three case studies (e.g., smart airport) with eight scenarios (e.g., federated learning) comprising nine applications and AI delivery models (smart surveillance, etc.) and 50 distinct sensor and software modules (e.g., object tracker). The evaluation of the case studies and the DAIaaS framework is reported in terms of end-to-end delay, network usage, energy consumption, and financial savings with recommendations to achieve higher performance. DAIaaS will facilitate standardization of distributed AI provisioning, allow developers to focus on the domain-specific details without worrying about distributed training and inference, and help systemize the mass-production of technologies for smarter environments.

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Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Tweets for Road Traffic Congestion and Event Detection

Cited by 27 publications

References 34 publications

COVID-19: Detecting Government Pandemic Measures and Public Concerns from Twitter Arabic Data Using Distributed Machine Learning

COVID-19: Detecting Government Pandemic Measures and Public Concerns from Twitter Arabic Data Using Distributed Machine Learning

Sehaa: A Big Data Analytics Tool for Healthcare Symptoms and Diseases Detection Using Twitter, Apache Spark, and Machine Learning

Distributed Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (DAIaaS) for Smarter IoE and 6G Environments

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