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Thanks for sharing your insights! Mind another question? How useful is that data really? I see the point in Amazon revenue #s of specific products etc, but "se

• pierrefar 16y ago
  Earlier this year I was at a conference where the keynote talked about "sentiment analysis" of social media. Using real tweets as examples he went on to debunk the current techniques as useless, really, because they can't understand the sentiment. The current techniques he knew of and shared were all keyword based. The OP mentioned the problems with this kind of analysis, and I agree too. Edit: typo.
• ig1 16y ago
  Well sentiment analysis for news seems to have gained mainstream acceptance, with major providers like Reuters offering apps in that space. For twitter, etc. it's still a relatively new field. There's a paper on it at http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003 http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003