Sentiment Analysis: An Overview

Abstract

With the explosive growth of the social media content on the Internet in the past few years, people now express their views on almost anything in discussion. Finding the opinion sites and monitoring them on the web is difficult task. Thus there is a need for automatic opinion discovery and summarization systems. Sentiment Analysis or Opinion Mining is the computational study of opinions, sentiments and emotions expressed in text. This paper describes the field of Sentiment Analysis and its latest developments.