Expanded-SauDiSenti Lexicon

The major language used on social media platforms is primarily dialectal, posing unique challenges for Natural Language Processing. To address this, a large, manually annotated corpus of approximately 30,500 Saudi dialect tweets in the food delivery app domain was introduced. The corpus was annotated with positive, negative, and neutral sentiment categories. Additionally, the existing SauDiSenti lexicon was expanded by 30%, providing an improved resource for sentiment analysis in the Saudi dialect. the corpus and expanded lexicon have been evaluated using machine learning classifiers. This high-quality, domain-specific dataset and the expanded sentiment lexicon are expected to significantly advance Arabic sentiment analysis, particularly in the Saudi dialect and the food delivery industry.