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3 - Document Sentiment Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2020

Bing Liu
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
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Starting from this chapter, we discuss the main research topics of sentiment analysis and their state-of-the-art algorithms. Document sentiment classification (or document-level sentiment analysis) is perhaps the most extensively studied topic in the field of sentiment analysis so far, especially in its early days (see the surveys by Pang and Lee, 2008a; Liu, 2012). It aims to classify an opinion document (e.g., a product review) as expressing a positive or a negative opinion (or sentiment), which are called sentiment orientations or polarities. This task is referred to as document-level analysis because it considers each document as a whole and does not study entities or aspects inside the document or determine sentiments expressed about them. Arguably, this task is the one that popularized sentiment analysis research. Its limitations also motivated the fine-grained task of aspect-based sentiment analysis (Hu and Liu, 2004) (Chapters 5 and 6), which is widely used in practice today.

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Sentiment Analysis
Mining Opinions, Sentiments, and Emotions
, pp. 55 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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