Techniques and applications for sentiment analysis

Abstract

The main applications and challenges of one of the hottest research areas in computer science.

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Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Natural language processing

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

    • Document representation