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The computational classification or scoring of opinions, attitudes or emotional polarity expressed in text or other data.

Sentiment analysis turns large volumes of reviews, tickets and survey comments into trackable signals, helping teams spot product issues, churn risk or campaign reactions faster than manual reading allows.

A support team runs 20,000 monthly tickets through a sentiment API, routes messages scoring below -0.6 to senior agents, and tracks weekly negative share by product area in a dashboard.

Models struggle with sarcasm, domain jargon, mixed opinions and non-English text, and accuracy drops when training data differs from the target. Aggregate scores can hide bias against dialects or groups, so outputs need human review.

Approaches include lexicon or rule-based scoring, supervised machine learning classifiers and transformer language models, plus hybrids. Output may be a label (positive, neutral, negative), a polarity score, or aspect-level sentiment tied to specific features. Google Cloud Natural Language, for example, returns a score where values above zero are positive and below zero negative, plus a magnitude for overall emotional strength.