MUATH ALALI received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from Jerash University, Jordan, in 2008, and the M.Sc. degree in computer science from Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan, in 2010. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. with the Intelligent Computing Department, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). From 2010 to 2011, he was a Lecturer of Computer Science with Jerash University. He was with Qassim University, Buridah, Saudi Arabia, as a Lecturer, from 2011 to 2016. His research interests include sentiment analysis, twitter sentiment analysis, deep learning, ordinal classification, and text classification. His current research interest includes Arabic Twitter sentiment analysis