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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-024-11-1582</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23705</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.3.3 - Information Search and Retrieval</subject>
          <subject>I.2.1 - Applications and Expert Systems</subject>
          <subject>I.2.2 - Automatic Programming</subject>
          <subject>I.2.4 - Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods</subject>
          <subject>I.2.6 - Learning</subject>
          <subject>I.2.7 - Natural Language Processing</subject>
          <subject>I.7 - DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING</subject>
          <subject>L.3.2 - Information Retrieval and Search</subject>
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        <article-title>Open Domain Targeted Sentiment Classification Using Semi-Supervised Dynamic Generation of Feature Attributes</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Abudalfa</surname>
            <given-names>Shadi</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">shadi_abudalfa@hotmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ahmed</surname>
            <given-names>Moataz</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia</addr-line>
        <institution>King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Dhahran</addr-line>
        <country>Saudi Arabia</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Shadi Abudalfa (<email xlink:type="simple">shadi_abudalfa@hotmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2018</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2018</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>24</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>1582</fpage>
      <lpage>1603</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/562D2471-F760-525E-ABCB-9770D3F5AB65">562D2471-F760-525E-ABCB-9770D3F5AB65</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505799">5505799</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>27</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2018</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2018</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Shadi Abudalfa, Moataz Ahmed</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Microblogging services have been significantly increased nowadays and enabled people to share conveniently their sentiments (opinions) with regard to matters of concerns. Such sentiments have shown an impact on many fields such as economics and politics. Different sentiment analysis approaches have been proposed in the literature to predict automatically sentiments shared in micro-blogs (e.g., tweets). A class of such approaches predicts opinion towards specific target (entity); this class is referred to as target-dependent sentiment classification. Another class, called open domain targeted sentiment classification, extracts targets from the micro-blog and predicts sentiment towards them. In this research work, we propose a new semi-supervised learning technique for developing open domain targeted sentiment classification by using fewer amounts of labelled data. To the best of our knowledge, our model represents the first semi-supervised technique that is proposed for open domain targeted sentiment classification. Additionally, we propose a new supervised learning model for improving accuracy of open domain targeted sentiment classification. Moreover, we show for the first time that SVM HMM is able to improve accuracy of open domain targeted sentiment classification. Experimental results show that our proposed technique outperforms other prominent techniques available in the literature.</p>
      </abstract>
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