Re:Show HN: I built an AI tool to analyze SEC filings the mi...
by petesergeant on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:39PM
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> Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool ... since the late 90s
Yes!
> LLMs didn't really break any new ground here
I don't think this is true. LLMs are a gigantic leap forward from any traditional sentiment analysis I've seen. Pre-2013, bag-of-words and TF-IDF were still state of the art. Call me out if you think I'm wrong, but hand-waving away the transformative power of LLMs here because we had some sentiment analysis approaches before seems unfair.
Yes!
> LLMs didn't really break any new ground here
I don't think this is true. LLMs are a gigantic leap forward from any traditional sentiment analysis I've seen. Pre-2013, bag-of-words and TF-IDF were still state of the art. Call me out if you think I'm wrong, but hand-waving away the transformative power of LLMs here because we had some sentiment analysis approaches before seems unfair.