Most of the current research has focused on building sentiment analysis applications for the English language (Pang and Lee, 2008;Liu, 2010;Korayem et al., 2012), with much less work on other languages.
there has been little work on sentiment analysis in Arabic (Abbasi et al., 2008;Abdul-Mageed et al., 2011;Abdul-Mageed and Diab, 2012b;Korayem et al., 2012), and very few, considerably small-sized, datasets to work with (Rushdi-Saleh et al., 2011b;Rushdi-Saleh et al., 2011a;Abdul-Mageed and Diab, 2012a;Elarnaoty et al., 2012).