Social Media is a rich source of information about the desires and needs of users to buy a product or service. There lies a huge opportunity in mining the Intent of users which can be applicable to the field of marketing, ecommerce, recommender systems, etc. This survey focuses on analyzing the techniques that can be used to mine the Intent of users from social data. Notable works that have contributed towards determining the Intent of users from social data has been highlighted.

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