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Sentiment analysis is an application of natural language processing. It is also known as emotion extraction or opinion mining. This is a very popular field of research in text mining. The basic idea is to find the polarity of the text and classify it into positive, negative or neutral. It helps in human decision making. To perform sentiment analysis, one has to perform various tasks like subjectivity detection, sentiment classification, aspect term extraction, feature extraction etc. This paper presents the survey of main approaches used for sentiment classification.
Kaur et al. (Wed,) studied this question.