Comments on: New Social Media Company in New Brunswick

By: Harold Jarche » Semantic Web Applications

Harold Jarche » Semantic Web Applications — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:48:19 +0000

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By: dave cormier

dave cormier — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:58:30 +0000

I could use a little advanced sentiment analysis. You guys really need to lighten up. Are you suggesting that, for instance, if this were reading fark, it wouldn’t get a decent read on our society?

sentimentlive.

I think I’ll call them.

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:02:22 +0000

Daniel, I wasn’t planning on investing in this company.

By: graham watt

graham watt — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:45:25 +0000

scary stuff. Lovers, husbands and wives, children in school, bus drivers and transit users without correct change, all kinds of people daily can’t sniff out sentiment and yet this software does it with pixels! My aunt told a story of a raging rouge (liberal) in Montreal in the early nineteen hundreds who had his vote cancelled for 30 years by his tiny, smiling wife. So much for sentiment.

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:47:00 +0000

Oh! And it is a NRC-hosted company (by the address).

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:44:50 +0000

I feel like yelling “been there, done that”.

This is old. Sooo old.

However. Before you invest in this company. You have to realize that analyzing the sentiment reflected in a text is no trivial matter. People get English degrees while studying this topic.

There is no way in h*ll software can do anything but some probabilistic tagging which will be often wrong.

If you think this might still be useful, you have to watch out. Basing decisions on hard data is already difficult enough (should I invest in my portfolio or pay my house?), I don’t think we are nearly sophisticated enough to do anything useful with sentiment analysis.

Of course, please, prove me wrong.