Getting Started with Natural Language Processing

7 Your first sentiment analyzer using sentiment lexicons

This chapter covers

• Discussing sentiment analysis in depth
• Implementing a sentiment analyzer using a lexicon-based approach
• Using spaCy to apply linguistic pipeline and linguistic concepts

The last two chapters discussed implementation of an authorship-attribution algorithm using NLP approaches and machine-learning techniques. You can now apply your authorship-attribution application whenever you want to identify the actual author of a particular piece of writing. The previous chapters also introduced several new ideas. Let’s summarize them here before we attempt a new NLP application:

• You’ve learned that machine learning is used quite a lot across NLP tasks. So far, you have applied ...