Sentiment Analysis Task

AKA: Subjectivity/Opinion Analysis.
Context:
- Input: Sentiment Containing Data (such as sentiment questionnaires from public opinion polling).
- output: a Sentiment Analysis Report.
- It can range from being a Heuristic Sentiment Analysis Task to being a Data-Driven Sentiment Analysis Task.
- It can range from being a Sentiment Classification Task to being a Sentiment Clustering Task.
- It can range from Long-Text-Item Sentiment Analysis Task to being a Short-Text-Item Sentiment Analysis Task.
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Example(s):
Counter-Example(s):
- an Opinion Summarization Task.
See: Opinion Word, Sentiment Question.

References

(Liu, 2015) ⇒ Bing Liu. (2015). “Sentiment Analysis: Opinions, Sentiment, and Emotion in Text." Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9781107017894
- BOOK OVERVIEW: Covers not only the core areas of sentiment analysis, but also several emerging topics such as debate, discussion and comment analysis, intention mining, and fake opinion detection.

(Souleles, 2004) ⇒ Nicholas S. Souleles. (2004). “Expectations, Heterogeneous Forecast Errors, and Consumption: Micro evidence from the Michigan consumer sentiment surveys.” In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2004): 39-72.
- QUOTE: ... The actual samples used in the different analyses in the paper can differ somewhat due to missing data or additional sample restrictions, as explained in the text and the following tables. ... Preliminary analysis found that for most sentiment questions, the effects of age and ...

(Chandler & Tsai, 2001) ⇒ Charles R. Chandler, and Yung-mei Tsai. (2001). “Social Factors Influencing Immigration Attitudes: an analysis of data from the General Social Survey." The Social Science Journal, 38(2).
- QUOTE: ... We used the white, nonwhite categories in the regression analyses, but race was not found to ... Also, anti-immigration sentiment has remained fairly constant in the US since the early 1980s ... smaller numbers of immigrants, this factor dropped out of sight in the multivariate analysis. ...

(Schuman, 1972) ⇒ Howard Schuman. (1972). “Two Sources of Antiwar Sentiment in America.” In: American Journal of Sociology.
- QUOTE: ... negative sentiments on the war, but almost no effort has been made to explore the reasons behind these sentiments. ... Of course, both these approaches deal with overt "reasons" and "goals," and still further analysis of social and psychological ... Two Sources of Antiwar Sentiment ...

(Wiseman, 1972) ⇒ Frederick Wiseman. (1972). “Methodological Bias in Public Opinion Surveys.” In: Public Opinion Quarterly (1972): 105-108.
- … Again, the largest percentage of socially undesirable responses was obtained with the mail questionnaire. ... obtained from this research is that responses given in a public opinion polling are not ... sample surveys in which the objective is to measure public sentiment on sensitive ...