[Corpora-List] Automatic sentiment detection

[J Washtell]

Hello Tony,

Fangzhong Su, here at the University of Leeds, is conducting research  
into automatic sentiment detection in text. His work may be relevant.  
I have copied these mail to him.

Regards,

Justin Washtell


Quoting Anthony Jappy <tony at univ-perp.fr>:

> Hi,
>    I have a colleague who has been manually analyzing texts in order to
> determine whether they are positive or negative with respect to their central
> theme. For obvious reasons, he would now like to automate the process.
>    Does anyone know of any way of determining whether the texts in   
> an electronic
> corpus are positive or negative with respect to their theme: i.e. given a set
> of texts on capital punishment, is there any way of determining reasonably
> accurately whether author A’s contribution can be seen as more positive than
> author B’s, or whether a given text is positive or downright   
> negative? My only
> experience in this area is with attempts to replicate with students reported
> results concerning semantic prosodies, certainly not the most   
> economical way of
> going about the problem mentioned above.
>    There may have been a thread on this problem, but I'm afraid I   
> don't recall
> it.
>   Any bibliographical references would be gratefully accepted.
>
>   TJ
>
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