Student Information
- Name: Fanar Rofoo
- Level: PhD
- University: Salahaddin University-Erbil
- Subject: Kurdish Sentiment Analysis
- Research Area: Sentiment Analysis for Central Kurdish (Sorani) Social Media Texts
- Status: Completed
- Supervisor: Dr. Polla Fattah
- Duration: 2023 - 2026
Research Focus
Fanar’s PhD research focused on sentiment analysis for Kurdish, particularly Central Kurdish (Sorani) social media texts. The work examines lexicon-based, machine learning, and deep learning approaches for a low-resource language, including dialectal variation, dual script systems, data scarcity, and informal short-text preprocessing.
Research Outcomes
- Completed the PhD and successfully defended the thesis in a viva
- Co-authored a comprehensive review of sentiment analysis approaches and challenges in Kurdish social media texts, presented at the International Conference on Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence