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Sentiment Analysis

Automatically determining whether a piece of text expresses positive, negative, or neutral sentiment.

Definition

Automatically determining whether a piece of text expresses positive, negative, or neutral sentiment. One of the most common NLP applications — used to analyze product reviews, social media mentions, and customer feedback at scale. Modern LLMs handle it trivially compared to older dedicated models.

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