Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs (system demonstration)
Namrata Godbole, Manjunath Srinivasaiah and Steven Skiena
News can be good or bad, but it is seldom neutral. Although
full comprehension of natural language text remains well beyond the power of machines, the statistical analysis of relatively simple sentiment cues can provide a surprisingly mean-
ingful sense of how the latest news impacts important entities.
Here we demonstrate our large-scale sentiment analysis system for news and blog entities built on top of the Lydia text
analysis system [1]. We determine the public sentiment on
each of the hundreds of thousands of entities that we track,
and how this sentiment varies with time. We encourage the
reader to study our historical sentiment analysis for your
favorite news entities at http://www.textmap.com and view
daily sentiment at http://www.textmap.com/sentiment.
Demo
Available as PDF