INDIACom-2016 is aimed at inviting original research papers in the field of, primarily, Computer Science and Information Technology and, generally, all interdisciplinary streams of Engineering Sciences, having central focus on sustainable computing applications, which may be of some use in enhancing the quality of life and contribute effectively to realize the nations’ vision of sustainable inclusive development using Computing. This special session on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis will provide an international forum for researchers in the field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors.