Abstract
Conference Title: 2014 IEEE/ACS 11th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) Conference Start Date: 2014, Nov. 10 Conference End Date: 2014, Nov. 13 Conference Location: Doha, Qatar Recently, subjectivity and sentiment analysis of Arabic has received much attention from the research community. In the past two years, an enormous number of references in the field have emerged compared to what has been published in previous years. In this paper, we present an updated survey of the emerging research on subjectivity and sentiment analysis of Arabic. We also highlight the challenges and future research directions in this field.