• Monali V. Waghmare
• Rajkumar S. Jagdale
• Vishal S. Shirsat

Individuals take help from friends, family member, or of any relatives in their decision making process. They depend on their opinions or suggestions, while business rely on surveys, focus groups, exit polls and counselors. This paper presents comprehensive description about lexicon based approach for the need of sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis is the way to analyze written or spoken language to determine if the expression is positive negative or neutral and to what degree it is. Sentiment Lexicon is a process which gives rise to sentiments within the large collection of textual data. The lexicon-based approach determines sentiment polarity using semantic orientation of words, sentences or document for review. A comprehensive, good quality lexicon is extremely important for fast, accurate sentiment analysis. The major focus of paper is to provide the information of lexicon approach which can be useful for research in the sentiment analysis.

Lexicon Based Approach, Machine learning Approach, Resources for lexicon based SA, Applications of sentiment analysis.

"Comparative Analysis Using Lexicon Based Approach", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.1190-1195, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802215.pdf

"Comparative Analysis Using Lexicon Based Approach", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp1190-1195, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802215.pdf