Chapter 8. Applying Machine Learning to Sentiment Analysis

In this Internet and social media time and age, people's opinions, reviews, and recommendations have become a valuable resource for political science and businesses. Thanks to modern technologies, we are now able to collect and analyze such data most efficiently. In this chapter, we will delve into a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) called sentiment analysis and learn how to use machine learning algorithms to classify documents based on their polarity: the attitude of the writer. The topics that we will cover in the following sections include:

  • Cleaning and preparing text data
  • Building feature vectors from text documents
  • Training a machine learning model to classify positive and ...

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