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Sentiment Analysis using NLP Libraries

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  Sentiment analysis is perhaps one of the most popular applications of natural language processing and text analytics with a vast number of websites, books and tutorials on this subject. Typically sentiment analysis seems to work best on subjective text, where people express opinions, feelings, and their mood. From a real- world industry standpoint, sentiment analysis is widely used to analyze corporate surveys, feedback surveys, social media data, and reviews for movies, places, commodities, and many more. The idea is to analyze and understand the reactions of people toward a specific entity and take insightful actions based on their sentiment. A   text corpus  consists of multiple text documents and each document can be as simple as a single sentence to a complete document with multiple paragraphs. Textual data, in spite of being highly unstructured, can be classified into two major types of documents. Factual documents that typically depict some form of statements or...