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Re:Show HN: My Twitter brand monitoring side project by optimus on Saturday August 25, 2012 @09:22AM (#4431979)
How are you determining if a tweet is positive, negative, or neutral?
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Re:Show HN: My Twitter brand monitoring side project by illdave on Saturday August 25, 2012 @10:03AM (#4432056)
It assigns a sentiment score based on a large bag of words. I'm making improvements to it each day, and it's slowly getting better. Terrible at picking up sarcasm though, but I think most sentiment analysis tools are.
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Re:Show HN: My Twitter brand monitoring side project by eli on Saturday August 25, 2012 @09:31AM (#4431992)
The Twitter API lets you search by mood, I would assume it's just passing those along.
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Re:Show HN: My Twitter brand monitoring side project by abhaga on Saturday August 25, 2012 @12:46PM (#4432494)
AFAIK that is an emoticon based thing, not real sentiment analysis.
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Re:Show HN: My Twitter brand monitoring side project by instakill on Saturday August 25, 2012 @09:42AM (#4432014)
It does? Never heard of that before.
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