Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 4, 2015)
Language: English
Book Description
This comprehensive introduction to all the core areas and many emerging themes of sentiment analysis approaches the problem from a natural-language-processing angle. The author explains the underlying structure and the language constructs that are commonly used to express opinions and sentiments and presents computational methods to analyze and summarize opinions.
About the Author
Bing Liu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. His current research interests include sentiment analysis and opinion mining, data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. He has published extensively in top conferences and journals, and his research has been cited on the front page of the New York Times. He is also the author of two books: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining (2012) and Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents and Usage Data (1st edition, 2007; 2nd edition, 2011). He currently serves as the chair of ACM SIGKDD and is an IEEE Fellow.