International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 131 - Number 1 |
Year of Publication: 2015 |
Authors: Vishakha Patel, Gayatri Prabhu, Kiran Bhowmick |
10.5120/ijca2015907218 |
Vishakha Patel, Gayatri Prabhu, Kiran Bhowmick . A Survey of Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. International Journal of Computer Applications. 131, 1 ( December 2015), 24-27. DOI=10.5120/ijca2015907218
A huge amount of online information, rich web resources are highly unstructured and such natural language are not solvable by machine directly. The increased demand to capture opinions of general public about social events, campaigns and sales of the product has led to study of the field opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Opinion refers to extraction of lines in raw data which expresses an opinion. Sentiment analysis identifies polarity of extracted opinions. The major challenge lies in analyzing the sentiments and identifying emotions expressed in texts. This paper presents a survey which covers a problem of sentiment analysis, techniques and methods used for the same.