[Corpora-List] EmoText - Software for opinion mining and lexical affect sensing

Amanda Schiffrin a.schiffrin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 13:46:48 UTC 2011


You're quite right, I didn't spot the second demo!  Well, it's a fair cop
then...

I just tried "I'm fairly unimpressed" and got the result "neutral".  It's
clearly not a British English sentiment detector then.

Mandy Schiffrin,
Researcher, RightNow Technologies



On 16 December 2011 14:31, Justin Washtell <lec3jrw at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> Not quite so. The instructions you quote are for the first demo, and I
> followed these.
> The second demo is designed to deal specifically with "short texts",
> reportedly relying on parsing rather than statistics.
>
> Justin Washtell
> University of Leeds
> ________________________________________
> From: Amanda Schiffrin [a.schiffrin at gmail.com]
> Sent: 16 December 2011 13:20
> To: Justin Washtell
> Cc: Alexander Osherenko; Corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] EmoText - Software for opinion mining and
> lexical affect sensing
>
> To be fair, the description does say: "For reliable result classified
> texts should contain not less than 200 words."
>
> Mandy Schiffrin
> Researcher, RightNow Technologies
>
>
>
> On 16 December 2011 14:06, Justin Washtell <lec3jrw at leeds.ac.uk<mailto:
> lec3jrw at leeds.ac.uk>> wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
>
> I tried both of your demos out of interest.
>
> For the first demo I used the default options (the movie reviews and Naive
> Bayes). I did not understand the output, or how it was supposed to relate
> to the various parts of the input (if indeed it is?)
>
> For the second demo I entered the following sentences and received the
> following classifications:
>
> This demo is terrible.                          low_neg
> This demo is no good at all.                    high_pos
> This demo is far from brilliant.                low_pos
>
> This demo is excellent.                         low_pos
> This demo is not bad at all.                    low_pos
> Thid demo couldn't be better!                   low_neg
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> I would presently dispute your claimed "undisputable advantages". I am not
> sure whether your intended customers - who are presumably not language
> technology experts - will require less or more convincing.
>
> Justin Washtell
> University of Leeds
>
> ________________________________________
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> corpora-bounces at uib.no<mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no>] On Behalf Of
> Alexander Osherenko [osherenko at gmx.de<mailto:osherenko at gmx.de>]
> Sent: 16 December 2011 08:46
> To: Corpora at uib.no<mailto:Corpora at uib.no>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] EmoText - Software for opinion mining and lexical
>       affect sensing
>
> Dear all!
>
> Recently I made an announcement of a book about opinion mining and lexical
> affect sensing. In this contribution I would like to point you to the
> EmoText demo program that relies on the findings in this book. It was
> implemented for the European CALLAS project.
>
> The link is:
> www.socioware.de/products.html<http://www.socioware.de/products.html><
> http://www.socioware.de/products.html>.
>
> I apologize for some advertising.
>
> Kind regards
> Alexander Osherenko
>
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