Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews: A Review

Now a day's internet is the most valuable source of learning, getting ideas, reviews for a product or a service. Everyday millions of reviews are generated in the internet about a product, person or a place. Because of their huge number and size it is very difficult to handle and understand such reviews. Sentiment analysis is such a research area which understands and extracts the opinion from the given review and the analysis process includes natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, text analytics and classifying the polarity of the opinion. In the field of sentiment analysis there are many algorithms exist to tackle NLP problems. Each algorithm is used by several applications. In this paper we have shown the taxonomy of various sentiment analysis methods. This paper also shows that Support vector machine (SVM) gives high accuracy compared to Naive bayes and maximum entropy methods.