Mukund Srinath (left on photo) and Pranav Venkit (right). In their paper The Sentiment Problem: A Critical Survey towards Deconstructing Sentiment Analysis, Pranav Venkit and Mukund Srinath, and co-authors Sanjana Gautam, Saranya Venkatraman, Vipul Gupta, Rebecca J. Passonneau and Shomir Wilson, present a review of the sociotechnical aspects of sentiment analysis. In this interview, Pranav and Mukund tell us more about sentiment analysis, how they went about surveying the literature, and recommendations for researchers in the field. Sentiment analysis, often referred to as opinion mining, is a branch of natural language processing (NLP) that focuses on determining and extracting the emotional tone or sentiment expressed in text data, such as reviews, social media posts, or any written content. This is the cumulative brief definition that is most commonly used in NLP.