Sentiment analysis: A review and comparative analysis of web services
Information SciencesPublished 4 April 2015Open access
Jesus Serrano‐Guerrero, José Á. Olivas, Francisco P. Romero, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma
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The goal of this work is to review and compare some free access web services, analyzing their capabilities to classify and score different pieces of text with respect to the sentiments contained therein.
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