Abstract
Sentiment or opinion analysis employs natural language processing to extract a significant pattern of knowledge from a large amount of textual data. It examines comments, opinions, emotions, beliefs, views, questions, preferences, attitudes, and requests communicated by the writer in a string of text. It extracts the writer’s feelings in the form of subjectivity (objective and subjective), polarity (negative, positive, and neutral), and emotions (angry, happy, surprised, sad, jealous, and mixed). Thus, this chapter covers the theoretical framework and use cases of sentiment analysis in libraries. The chapter is followed by a case study showing the application of sentiment analysis in libraries using two different tools.
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Lamba, M., Madhusudhan, M. (2022). Sentiment Analysis. In: Text Mining for Information Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85085-2_7
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