Conducting Sentiment Analysis

This Element provides a basic introduction to sentiment analysis, aimed at helping students and professionals in corpus linguistics to understand what sentiment analysis is, how it is conducted, and where it can be applied.

List of contents

1. Sentiment analysis: Background; 2. Methods for sentiment analysis; 3. How to do sentiment analysis with R; 4. Case study 1: A diachronic analysis of sentiments and emotions in the State of the Union Addresses; 5. Case study 2: A sentiment and emotion analysis of movie reviews; 6. Conclusion: Where we are and where we are heading; References.

Summary

This Element provides a basic introduction to sentiment analysis, aimed at helping students and professionals in corpus linguistics to understand what sentiment analysis is, how it is conducted, and where it can be applied.

Product details

• Authors: Lei Lei, Lei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Lei, Lei Lei, Dilin Liu, Liu Dilin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108829212
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82921-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Media Studies, Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Computational Linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics