<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 19 Nov 2012, at 15:00, Patrick Juola <<a href="mailto:juola@mathcs.duq.edu">juola@mathcs.duq.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Trevor Jenkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com" target="_blank">trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>On 19 Nov 2012, at 12:44, <<a href="mailto:coralie.reutenauer@orange.com" target="_blank">coralie.reutenauer@orange.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:'Helvetica 55 Roman'"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt">Here is a web site for sentiment tagging of tweets and blogs, where you can analyze brand e-reputation :</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I've been pondering an issue with sentiment analysis and opinion mining that the above brings to a head. Are the three things: sentiment, opinion and reputation identical?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, they're not. Consider the following exchange:</div><div>- Have I eaten my last Twinkie?</div><div>- Unfortunately, yes. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But that's a culturally determined example. Twinkies, thankfully, never made it across the Atlantic.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">The second speaker is expressing an opinion (that no one else will pick up the Twinkie brand and start manufacturing them again, which is value neutral), a sentiment (negative) that this is a bad thing, and a reputation (positive) for Twinkie, because its disappearance is bad.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Alternatively the second speaker is expression a sentiment that the first speaker has wolf down the last of the Twinkies in the house and that they are resentful of the action. Without a (much) larger context we can't read into that anecdotal example any real sentiment, opinion or reputation.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div> Are we devaluing each or any of those descriptors by regarding them as one and same lumping them together like this?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, because they're very similar. "Big cat" is a meaningful term even if lions, tigers, and panthers are all distinct species, because they share more similarities than differences.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not it you're an Apple user. Hopefully I can out run those. ;-)</div></div><br><div>
Regards, Trevor.<div><br></div><div><>< Re: deemed!</div>
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