Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Survey

Sentiment analysis or Opinion mining is becoming an important task both from academics and commercial standpoint. In recent years text mining has become most promising area for research. There is an exponential growth with respect to World Wide Web, Mobile Technologies, Internet usage and business on electronic commerce applications. Because of which web opinion sources like online shopping portals, discussion forums, peer-to-peer networks, groups, blogs, micro blogs and social networking applications are extensively used to share the information, experience and opinions. In sentiment analysis, the opinion is evaluated to its positivity, negativity and neutrality with respect to the complete document or object. But this level of analysis does not provide the necessary detailed information for many applications. To obtain more fine grained analysis we need to go to Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA). Aspect Based Sentiment analysis introduces a suite of problems which require deeper NLP capabilities and also produces a rich set of results.