Overview
- Intellectual Challenge: Research on sentiment analysis is rooted in the ancient arts of hermeneutics and linguistic philosophy
- Academic Relevance: Sentiment analysis is exemplar qualitative analysis that has been automated
- Semantic Web : Sentiment analysis is key to ‘intelligent’ search and retrieval especially in the mission critical area of surveillance and law & order
- Financial Reward: Sentiment analysis is the missing link between fundamental analysis and technical analysis for financial markets
Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 45)
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This volume maps the watershed areas between two 'holy grails' of computer science: the identification and interpretation of affect – including sentiment and mood. The expression of sentiment and mood involves the use of metaphors, especially in emotive situations. Affect computing is rooted in hermeneutics, philosophy, political science and sociology, and is now a key area of research in computer science. The 24/7 news sites and blogs facilitate the expression and shaping of opinion locally and globally. Sentiment analysis, based on text and data mining, is being used in the looking at news and blogs for purposes as diverse as: brand management, film reviews, financial market analysis and prediction, homeland security. There are systems that learn how sentiments are articulated.
This work draws on, and informs, research in fields as varied as artificial intelligence, especially reasoning and machine learning, corpus-based information extraction, linguistics, and psychology.
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Book Title: Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis
Book Subtitle: Emotion, Metaphor and Terminology
Editors: Khurshid Ahmad
Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1757-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1756-5Published: 24 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3788-4Published: 19 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1757-2Published: 24 August 2011
Series ISSN: 1386-291X
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9388
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 150
Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Computational Linguistics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, general