This paper presents an approach towards bi-lingual sentiment analysis of tweets. Social networks being most advanced and popular communication medium can help in designing better government and business strategies. There are a number of studies reported that use data from social networks; however, most of them are based on English language. In this research, we have focused on sentiment analysis of bilingual dataset (English and Roman-Urdu) on topic of national interest (General Elections). Our experiments produced encouraging results with 76% of tweet’s sentiment strength classified correctly. We have also created a bi-lingual lexicon that stores the sentiment strength of English and Roman Urdu terms. Our lexicon is available at: https://sites.google. com/a/mcs.edu.pk/codteem/biling_senti
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