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In order to infer how the world has perceived the unfolding of events in Egypt during the last eight years, we take the Guardian newspaper as a sample study to extract valuable information about the world viewpoints on the big events in Egypt during this period. We perform a sentiment analysis on all the articles in the ‘World’ section of the newspaper from the beginning of 2010 till the end of 2017 based on just the keyword ‘Egypt’. We extracted Unigram tokens from each article and used them for making inference using three lexicons dictionaries: afinn, nrc, and bing. The results show that the general trend is slightly negative over all the selected period. Many conflicting feelings were prevalent during this period such as positive, negative, trust, fear, anger and anticipation. The results show also that years 2011 and 2013, where the world witnessed the two uprisings in Egypt, have witnessed the peaks in both positive and negative emotions.
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Gomaa, W., Elbasiony, R. (2020). World Perception of the Latest Events in Egypt Based on Sentiment Analysis of the Guardian’s Related Articles. In: Hassanien, A., Azar, A., Gaber, T., Bhatnagar, R., F. Tolba, M. (eds) The International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA2019). AMLTA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 921. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14118-9_89
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