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Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by hectormalot on Sunday October 01, 2017 @12:40PM (#15378584)
As a concept I think this is interesting. Could actually be great as a plugin similar to e.g. Grammarly, where you can automatically do this for all your comment fields.

P.s. As a red-green color blind person I don't see a difference between the two examples (might also be my phone). An additional visual indicator might be helpful.

Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by divanvisagie on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:29PM (#15379371)
I hadn't considered that. Will definitely look into some other sort of indicator.
Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by kusmi on Sunday October 01, 2017 @02:42PM (#15379191)
I embedded the sentiment analyzer from Stanford core nlp into a web crawler I wrote, with the idea of instructing the crawler to follow links surrounded by only positive or negative text. Didn't seem all that useful at the time, but now I wonder if it's worth digging up?
Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by Iv on Sunday October 01, 2017 @06:21PM (#15380200)
I wonder if you could not feed, e.g. reddit comments and identify long chains of respectful conversations for instance.

It could also be a useful moderation tool by pointing out who first started to troll and devolved a conversation into a fece flinging contest.

Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by divanvisagie on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:11PM (#15386306)
You may want to train it on some new data then. The data CoreNLP comes trained with is basically yelp review type of stuff, so people talking about a product. Seems to work fine for people talking about other people too. But I think you will get much better results if you train it to actually detect trolls.
Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by kusmi on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @03:07AM (#15390718)
Maybe set up a crowdfund to make the internet's first troll content training corpus.
Re:Building a Sentiment aware Polymer input control – A UI e... by Iv on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:43PM (#15388907)
Try to predict karma scores then?