2020/07/05 by Antony Samuels, Samuels, Antony, John Mcgonical +1
Computer Science · #Advanced Text Analysis Techniques #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining #Web Data Mining and Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2007.02238
openalex publication_date 2020/07/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Modern technological era has reshaped traditional lifestyle in several domains. The medium of publishing news and events has become faster with the advancement of Information Technology. IT has also been flooded with immense amounts of data, which is being published every minute of every day, by millions of users, in the shape of comments, blogs, news sharing through blogs, social media micro-blogging websites and many more. Manual traversal of such huge data is a challenging job, thus, sophisticated methods are acquired to perform this task automatically and efficiently. News reports events that comprise of emotions - good, bad, neutral. Sentiment analysis is utilized to investigate human emotions present in textual information. This paper presents a lexicon-based approach for sentiment analysis of news articles. The experiments have been performed on BBC news data set, which expresses the applicability and validation of the adopted approach.