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While most papers have applied XAI to English and other Latin-based languages, this paper aims to explain attention-based long short-term memory (LSTM) results across Arabic Sentiment Analysis (ASA), which is considered an uncharted area in previous research. With the use of Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanation (LIME), we intend to further justify and demonstrate how the LSTM leads to the prediction of sentiment polarity within ASA in domain-specific Arabic texts regarding medical insights on LASIK surgery across Twitter users. In our research, the LSTM reached an accuracy of 79.1% on the proposed data set. Throughout the representation of sentiments using LIME, it demonstrated accurate results regarding how specific words contributed to the overall sentiment polarity classification. Furthermore, we compared the word count with the probability weights given across the examples, in order to further validate the LIME results in the context of ASA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info13110536","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,14]],"date-time":"2022-11-14T04:21:45Z","timestamp":1668399705000},"page":"536","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Justifying Arabic Text Sentiment Analysis Using Explainable AI (XAI): LASIK Surgeries Case Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7332-1938","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youmna","family":"Abdelwahab","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computing, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Alexandria 1029, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0043-6205","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed","family":"Kholief","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computing, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Alexandria 1029, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ahmed Ahmed Hesham","family":"Sedky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computing, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Alexandria 1029, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"133","article-title":"Explainable artificial intelligence for education and training","volume":"19","author":"Fiok","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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