Opinion Mining and Analysis: A survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews various techniques in opinion mining and sentiment analysis, emphasizing the development of systems that summarize opinions on product features from web resources.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of existing methods and insights into building opinion mining software systems based on surveyed techniques.

Findings

Various opinion mining techniques have been developed for sentiment analysis.

Summarization of opinions based on product features is a key challenge.

A broad picture of system development in opinion mining is presented.

Abstract

The current research is focusing on the area of Opinion Mining also called as sentiment analysis due to sheer volume of opinion rich web resources such as discussion forums, review sites and blogs are available in digital form. One important problem in sentiment analysis of product reviews is to produce summary of opinions based on product features. We have surveyed and analyzed in this paper, various techniques that have been developed for the key tasks of opinion mining. We have provided an overall picture of what is involved in developing a software system for opinion mining on the basis of our survey and analysis.