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"This is shit" isn't inherently negative. Consider the question "what is the brown substance in the toilet?" and you can answer a neutral "this is shit".
by byoung2 13y ago
"This is shit" isn't inherently negative. Consider the question "what is the brown substance in the toilet?" and you can answer a neutral "this is shit".
- gfodor 13y agoPresumably if you throw a realistic corpus of written text you will have much more occurrences of the idiom.
- Cyranix 13y agoSentiment analysis implies attitudes, which imply context. A robust sentiment analysis system must either be trained on a targeted corpus (in which entities/concepts and attitudes are well aligned) or include some way of establishing a more targeted context after having been trained on a general-purpose corpus. That is to say, people generally aren't describing the physical material occupying a toilet in a corpus of movie reviews.
- byoung2 13y agoI was referring to the previous comment, where the two lines about shit were used as a test for any sentiment analysis engine. Your point about context is what I was trying to illustrate.
- dagw 13y agoI imagine that someone using the word 'shit' to describe the brown stuff in the toilet is probably negatively inclined towards it. Someone discussing it in a more neutral context (like a doctor or scientist) would probably be more likely to say 'feces'