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Product Manufacturer expects the customer to review their product once they have purchased. Due to the popularity gain of the e-commerce the reviews of the product is also increasing day by day in large number. There is no limitation in writing the reviews by the customer it all depends on the customer satisfaction and their likes. This makes it difficult for a product manufacturer to read the reviews, analyze the opinions and to keep track of product opinions. Thus, it aims to mine the product opinions with respect to its attribute and then rate the aspect. Most of the works before were using document level or sentence level of opinion mining. This work makes use of aspect based opinion mining (phase level or word level). It mainly focuses on mining user opinions on different product aspects from online product reviews and to identify whether the opinions are positive or negative. This methodology will enhance effectiveness of the time efficiency of aspect orientation.
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