Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data MiningPublished 1 January 2017
Lei Zhang, Bing Liu
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With the rapid growth of social media, sentiment analysis, also called opinion mining, has become one of the most active research areas in natural language processing. Its application is also widespread, from business services to political campaigns. This article gives an introduction to this important area and presents some recent developments.
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