  Opinions are very important in the life of human beings. These Opinions
helped the humans to carry out the decisions. As the impact of the Web is
increasing day by day, Web documents can be seen as a new source of opinion for
human beings. Web contains a huge amount of information generated by the users
through blogs, forum entries, and social networking websites and so on To
analyze this large amount of information it is required to develop a method
that automatically classifies the information available on the Web. This domain
is called Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. Opinion Mining or Sentiment
Analysis is a natural language processing task that mine information from
various text forms such as reviews, news, and blogs and classify them on the
basis of their polarity as positive, negative or neutral. But, from the last
few years, enormous increase has been seen in Hindi language on the Web.
Research in opinion mining mostly carried out in English language but it is
very important to perform the opinion mining in Hindi language also as large
amount of information in Hindi is also available on the Web. This paper gives
an overview of the work that has been done Hindi language.

Information Retrieval;Computation and Language