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Sentiment Features – Negators and Negated Tokens

 

Mentioned in my blog post of last week, I want to get into the different features that I see as very relevant to detect sentiment in tweets. Some of them are easy to detect, some aren’t. Let’s get an overview on Negation first…

Sentiments in Tweets – Integrating ArkTools into the Project

I’ve refined and partially overhauled my algorithms to analyze sentiment in Tweets over the last weeks with some notable results. Here is what I came up with so far. I am starting to feel like I’m doing science instead of the tedious tasks I did over my previous semesters.

Shaping the Scoring Algorithm – Attempt No. 1

 

Reading and interpreting sentences with an algorithm instead by yourself is tough. Reading tweets is worse, so much worse. Let me tell you about some concepts I came up with.

Crawling Twitter – A Long Story about Patience

 

Turns out, twitter.com doesn’t like it when you request tons of tweets and it took me quite a while to get a decent number of them. Here is a little update, what I received so far.

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