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Answer services are pretty interesting when it comes to finding a high level definition of "sentiment analysis". Answer services are sort of a hybrid between algo search and human-run directories with a different user interaction model. You can ask plain English questions and get plain English answers. Answer services touch on what some have called Social Search, pigging backing on social networking trends, although I am still looking for a good definition of Social Search. What I really like is that answers (a.k.a. results) come from people. It's somewhat along the path of Wikipedia , although the set of info retrieved is made of ... Read Full Story

A search for sentiment analysis on MSN Live serves some interesting results as well. TrendIQ is at the top, definitely well indexed with most engines. The second result is not as relevant, but the third is, the paper from Cornel discussing professors Claire Cardie and Lillian Lee, " working on sentiment-analysis technologies for extracting and summarizing opinions from unstructured human-authored documents. They envision systems that (a) find reviews, editorials, and other expressions of opinion on the Web and (b) create condensed versions of the material or graphical summaries of the overall consensus. " MSN Lives's last result for [sentiment analysis] is a full deck, ... Read Full Story

First, Yahoo! returns different sets of results whether you "quote" the query " sentiment analysis " or not ; the set of Sponsored Links changes because no advertiser seems to be targeting the exact phrase. At first sight, most of the organic results, sponsored links, "Also try" related searches features, ... relate to the financial markets' sentiments. Nice, related to "sentiment analysis" but not what I am looking for. You're probably wondering how could Yahoo! or anybody else know? Well, I have been doing searches on the topic for a while, repeatedly. Can't the engines learn from my behavior? Not yet I guess. The ... Read Full Story

First, Yahoo! returns different sets of results whether you "quote" the query " sentiment analysis " or not ; the set of Sponsored Links changes because no advertiser seems to be targeting the exact phrase. At first sight, most of the organic results, sponsored links, "Also try" related searches features, ... relate to the financial markets' sentiments. Nice, related to "sentiment analysis" but not what I am looking for. You're probably wondering how could Yahoo! or anybody else know? Well, I have been doing searches on the topic for a while, repeatedly. Can't the engines learn from my behavior? Not yet I guess. The ... Read Full Story

Remember, I am on a quest to find a good high level definition of "sentiment analysis", nothing too granular, and definitely related to Internet buzz monitoring, reputation management. Overall, results are pretty good doing a quick comparative analysis across the main algorithmic engines. Google and Yahoo! provide the best results. yahoo!'s 404 SL is annoying but the Answers and Related searches integration makes up for it. Ask comes next, actually doing better than MSN Live. Keep in mind that "relevance" is very much a personal measure of perception that goes beyond results #1 to 10. Both advertising and organic results are somewhat dynamic, so ... Read Full Story

Remember, I am on a quest to find a good high level definition of "sentiment analysis", nothing too granular, and definitely related to Internet buzz monitoring, reputation management. Overall, results are pretty good doing a quick comparative analysis across the main algorithmic engines. Google and Yahoo! provide the best results. yahoo!'s 404 SL is annoying but the Answers and Related searches integration makes up for it. Ask comes next, actually doing better than MSN Live. Keep in mind that "relevance" is very much a personal measure of perception that goes beyond results #1 to 10. Both advertising and organic results are somewhat dynamic, so ... Read Full Story

A search for sentiment analysis on MSN Live serves some interesting results as well. TrendIQ is at the top, definitely well indexed with most engines. The second result is not as relevant, but the third is, the paper from Cornel discussing professors Claire Cardie and Lillian Lee, "working on sentiment-analysis technologies for extracting and summarizing opinions from unstructured human-authored Read Full Story