A Review on Data Driven Approaches for Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Due to the emergence of social media becoming a common platform for sharing of views and day to day activities, more researches are aimed at extracting data out of social media data mining, one subset of which is text mining of social media data such as twitter, facebook, Whatsapp etc. Due the enormous amount of data available with the websites, they become a natural choice for text mining and/or opinion mining. This paper presents the necessity for text cum opinion mining based Sentiment analysis and its various associated techniques. It is expected that the paper will pave a path for future researchers to carry forward their research in a direction which best suits their application