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To-date, and to the best of my knowledge, current research on uncertainty automatic analysis has only focused on uncertainty attribution and scope extraction, and has typically tackled each task with a different machine learning approach. Furthermore, current research on uncertainty automatic analysis has been restricted to specific languages, particularly English, and to specific linguistic genres, including biomedical and newswire texts, Wikipedia articles, and product reviews. In this research project, I attempt to address the aforementioned limitations of current research on automatic uncertainty analysis. First, I develop a machine learning model for uncertainty attribution, the task typically neglected in automatic uncertainty analysis. Second, I propose a unified framework to identify and extract uncertainty cues, holders, and scopes in one-fell swoop by casting each task as a supervised token sequence labeling problem. Third, I choose to work on the Arabic language, in contrast to English, the most commonly studied language in the literature of automatic uncertainty analysis. Finally, I work on the understudied linguistic genre of tweets. This research project results in a novel NLP tool, i.e., a comprehensive automatic uncertainty analyzer for Arabic tweets, with a practical impact on NLP applications that rely on uncertainty automatic analysis. The tool yields an F1 score of 0.759, averaged across its three machine learning models. 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