[1405.2584] Sentiment Analysis: A Survey – arXiv

Computer Science > Information Retrieval
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Sentiment Analysis: A SurveyAuthors:Rahul Tejwani (University at Buffalo)(Submitted on 11 May 2014)
Abstract: Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining) refers to the use of
natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to
identify and extract subjective information in source materials. Mining
opinions expressed in the user generated content is a challenging yet
practically very useful problem. This survey would […]

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