Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis –An Assessment of Peoples’ Belief: A Survey

Opinion Mining is a process of automatic extraction of knowledge from the opinion of others about some particular topic or problem. The idea of Opinion mining and Sentiment Analysis tool is to “process a set of search results for a given item, generating a list of product attributes (quality, features etc.) and aggregating opinion”. But with the passage of time more interesting applications and developments came into existence in this area and now its main goal is to make computer able to recognize and generate emotions like human. This paper will try to focus on the basic definitions of Opinion Mining, analysis of linguistic resources required for Opinion Mining, few machine learning techniques on the basis of their usage and importance for the analysis, evaluation of Sentiment classifications and its various applications. KeywordsSentiment Mining, Opinion Mining, Text Classification.