Urdu Sentiment Analysis: A Review

The Internet has become a fundamental necessity for individuals in today’s society. Due to the emergence and growth of Internet users, the information flow is increasing rapidly. People openly express their opinions and views on products, services, and political situations on several social media platforms. Finding the emotion behind their opinions is an important and challenging task in the research area of natural language processing (NLP). Several researchers worked on sentiment analysis, but the preferred language for their research is English. Due to the lack of attention from researchers and the complex morphological structure of the Urdu language, there is tremendous scope for research. In this article, we have analyzed the research work available for Urdu sentiment analysis and found out the dataset and techniques preferred for Urdu sentiment analysis.