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Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK
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Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK

by Nitin Hardeniya, Jacob Perkins, Deepti Chopra, Nisheeth Joshi, Iti Mathur
November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
687 pages
15h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7. Sentiment Analysis – I Am Happy

Sentiment analysis or sentiment generation is one of the tasks in NLP. It is defined as the process of determining the sentiments behind a character sequence. It may be used to determine whether the speaker or the person expressing the textual thoughts is in a happy or sad mood, or it represents a neutral expression.

This chapter will include the following topics:

  • Introducing sentiment analysis
  • Sentiment analysis using NER
  • Sentiment analysis using machine learning
  • Evaluation of the NER system

Introducing sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis may be defined as a task performed on natural languages. Here, computations are performed on the sentences or words expressed in natural language to determine whether ...

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