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Sentiment Analysis Basics

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You are working on an NLP feature that needs to classify text by sentiment. Before choosing models or tooling, you need to explain the core ideas behind how sentiment analysis works and what a basic implementation looks like.

Question

What are the basics of sentiment analysis?

What This Tests

  • How sentiment analysis is framed as a text classification task
  • Why tokenization and text normalization matter
  • How TF-IDF represents text numerically
  • How to train a basic classifier for sentiment labels
  • Why F1 score is often better than accuracy alone