Sentiment Analysis Methods and Applications–A Review

Abstract

Sentiment analysis is the most vital research field in the area of natural language processing and text mining. It is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs that introduces products upon online selling websites where customers can post their reviews. In this paper, we have taken the state-of-the-art research papers which are highly cited and analyse them to understand the different techniques and methods to perform sentiment analysis. As sentiment analysis is related to natural language processing it is having several issues of computation. We have discussed many different techniques and tried to suggest the best way to work with them. We have also discussed the different applications of sentiment analysis.