Performing sentiment analysis on reviews

Sentiment analysis is the process of obtaining some assessment of text such as a favorable or unfavorable review of a book. We will demonstrate how this type of analysis can be performed using the Stanford API. Specifically, we will use a model trained for movie reviews.

Getting ready

To prepare, we need to do the following:

1. Create a new Maven project
2. Add the following dependencies to the project's POM file:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/edu.stanford.nlp/stanford-corenlp -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>edu.stanford.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>stanford-corenlp</artifactId>
    <version>3.9.2</version>
</dependency>
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