Question

Can we consider sentiment classification as a text classification problem?
Yes or No

Answer 1

The answer is Yes.

Yes, we can consider sentiment classification as a text classification problem.

It is a special activity of text classification that aims at classifying the text based on the sentimental polarities of the opinions that the text contains.  

Examples of these are positive or negative, favorable or unfavorable.

Answer 2

Yes we can consider sentiment classification as a text classification problem.

If we consider the study as illustrated in Pang et al 2002, we can understand that the sentiment classification is in fact quite an integral task associated with text classification.

Sentiment classification aims at categorizing a text on the basis of their sentiment as displayed by the text.

A common use of sentiment classification is in business intelligence models.