A comparative analysis of sentiment analysis tools for data mining systems

Abstract

Over the past few years the rise in big data is something that has gained a lot of traction and attention, the sheer volume of data produced by humans is increasing rapidly each year The growth in social media over the past few years has changed how we interact and how we connect globally, as such there is a rising need to ascertain user sentiment Sentiment Analysis ( also known as Opinion Mining ( is a means of understanding the emotion, opinion or sentiment of a piece of text and is an ongoing field of research Natural Language Processing ( is used to assign or identify meaning to written or spoken language or use in further analysis with machine learning