"I went to a presentation from a sentiment analysis business last year. They were discussing how they were using it on the firehose feed of everything from twitter. Rather than assassinations, they were more interested in marketing, branding, and the impact on stock prices (there are apparently some iiiiiiinteresting correlations).
The thing that entertained me was they said they had to special-case content coming from the UK — because our levels of sarcasm/irony were skewing their results.
I think it was the most patriotic moment of my life <sniff> ;-)"
"I went to a presentation from a sentiment analysis business last year. They were discussing how they were using it on the firehose feed of everything from twitter. Rather than assassinations, they were more interested in marketing, branding, and the impact on stock prices (there are apparently some iiiiiiinteresting correlations).
The thing that entertained me was they said they had to special-case content coming from the UK — because our levels of sarcasm/irony were skewing their results.
I think it was the most patriotic moment of my life <sniff> ;-)"