Answers.Body: <p>Sentiment in this context refers to evaluations, typically positive/negative/neutral. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sentiment Analysis</a> can be applied to product reviews, to identify if the reviewer liked the product or not. This has (in principle) got nothing to do with emotions as such.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_recognition" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Emotion recognition</a> would typically work on conversational data (eg from  conversations with chatbots), and it would attempt to recognise the emotional state of the user -- angry/happy/sad...</p>
  
  <p>Of course the same can overlap: if the user is happy, they will typically express positive sentiments on something.</p>
  
  <p>Also: emotion recognition goes beyond text (eg facial expressions), whereas sentiment analysis mostly works with textual data only.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p><strong>Sentiment Analysis</strong> -- the most common text classification that analyses an incoming message and tells whether the underlying sentiment is positive, negative, or neutral.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Emotion Recognition</strong>-- emotion recognition refers to the cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.</p>
  
  <p>Note: This explanation is based on the paper that I have read.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I found Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition as two different categories on <a href="https://paperswithcode.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">paperswithcode.com</a>. Should both be the same as my understanding? If not what's the difference?</p>
  
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ThreadText: # What is the difference between Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-15)
  
  I found Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition as two different categories on [paperswithcode.com](https://paperswithcode.com/). Should both be the same as my understanding? If not what's the difference?
  
  **Tags:** definitions, comparison, emotional-intelligence, sentiment-analysis
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-05-16. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Sentiment in this context refers to evaluations, typically positive/negative/neutral. [Sentiment Analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis) can be applied to product reviews, to identify if the reviewer liked the product or not. This has (in principle) got nothing to do with emotions as such.
  
  [Emotion recognition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_recognition) would typically work on conversational data (eg from conversations with chatbots), and it would attempt to recognise the emotional state of the user -- angry/happy/sad...
  
  Of course the same can overlap: if the user is happy, they will typically express positive sentiments on something.
  
  Also: emotion recognition goes beyond text (eg facial expressions), whereas sentiment analysis mostly works with textual data only.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-04-21. Score: 0
  
  **Sentiment Analysis** -- the most common text classification that analyses an incoming message and tells whether the underlying sentiment is positive, negative, or neutral.
  
  **Emotion Recognition**-- emotion recognition refers to the cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.
  
  Note: This explanation is based on the paper that I have read.
  
  
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