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Sentiment Analysis: A Survey of Current Research and Techniques

Jeevanandam Jotheeswaran, Dr. S. Koteeswaran

Opinions and reviews on products and services are expressed in the Web through blogs, feedback forms; it is essential to develop methods to automatically classify and gauge them to identify the underlying sentiment about the product. Analyzing the polarity of sentiment expressed in data is Opinion Mining (OM). It is a system that identifies and classifies opinion/sentiment as represented in electronic text. Economic and marketing researches depend heavily on accurate method to predict sentiments of opinions extracted from internet and predict online customer’s preferences. OM has many steps, and techniques for each step. This study ensures an overall survey about OM related to product reviews, and classification algorithms used for sentiment classification.