Decision Support system

Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to help you learn more about the concepts of Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis.

Brief Introduction

Text Mining

Text mining is the process of extracting information from unstructured data.

Sentiment Analysis

In Sentiment Analysis, the objective is to determine whether a given text is positive, negative or neutral. It is also known as opinion mining since the purpose is to determine the opinion or attitude of a speaker.

Action Items

• Give some examples where Sentiment Analysis techniques are being used
• What will be the impact of the success of Sentiment Analysis Tools on human society
• How Text mining tools can be used for Sentiment Analysis
• Mention names of some tools used for Text mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Respond to three other class member postings: observe and criticize but "Don't agree" to their statements