This document discusses automatic sentiment analysis for unstructured data. It introduces sentiment analysis and how it can be used to understand people's opinions on products, services, organizations, and other topics. Sentiment analysis can be performed at the document, sentence, and entity levels. The document then discusses existing techniques for sentiment analysis, such as machine learning and text mining approaches. It proposes an approach that considers both subjective and objective sentences. The document outlines experimental work on Indian political news articles and future work to create a global sentiment dictionary.