Sentiment Analysis on YouTube: A Brief Survey
This is an incremental survey paper that addresses sentiment analysis for researchers and practitioners interested in video-sharing platforms.
The paper surveys techniques for analyzing user opinions on YouTube videos, focusing on sentiment analysis methods applied to video comments.
Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is the field of study related to analyze opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions of users which they express on social media and other online resources. The revolution of social media sites has also attracted the users towards video sharing sites, such as YouTube. The online users express their opinions or sentiments on the videos that they watch on such sites. This paper presents a brief survey of techniques to analyze opinions posted by users about a particular video.