Posted on 02/13/2009 12:13:26 PM PST by WayneLusvardi
Sentiment Analysis is a tool developed by Newstin to indicate the overall tone of an article i.e., whether it has a positive, negative or neutral feel to it. For example, an article about an oil spillage at sea would most likely contain negative wording due to the effects of the incident. Our Sentiment-o-Meter provides readers with an indication of the tone of an article without reading it. Red represents negative tone, green positive and grey is for neutral tone: The higher the scale of the colour (from bottom to top), the greater the degree of the given sentiment.
If you go to the webpage you can see on the right side the search terms and the color bars. Pres. Obama has quite a bit or red. See here. This is a stupid attempt at ranking news stories by "sentiment" not by content. I wouldn't bother with them since they are a UK based company (Registered as Newstin a.s.).
I went to the site, then went to about the third screen and scanned a complete article about the RCMP and Tasers that was rated highly red.
On scanning the article, nothing stood out as especially negative except that some say tasers sometimes kill people and and their use is being restricted while others disagree.
Let the bastards come get this fed up great grandmother. When they make it illegal for me to listen to my talk radio and read FR, they got real trouble. I wouldn’t recommend they do it. At this point in my life, I don’t have that much to lose.
Orwell would recognize the evil inherent in big daddy Soros.
Outfits like this are well-funded by their shadow general international pimp George Soros.
I have an idea: why don’t we use the power of the freepers to redline as many articles as possible. Might as well do it, since we all are fed up with stupid sites like
that.
So post somewhere else.
I usually do that until they ban me for life.
To dirtyboy:
According to a post above Newstin is a data miner. In other words, you do not have to post on Newstin for it to cross-post your article and rate it. It searches for articles and posts them and then rates them for tone.
There you go. I’ve been posting all over reddit.com and digg.com just to be on the safe side. They won’t ban me but they will vote me down (negative) so that ought to
help
Nope, writing “[explitive deleted] Bush!” will be judged to have a ‘positive tone’, while writing “The manifest ignorance of fundamental economics shown by the Obama administration thus far is staggering,” will be judged to have an ‘extremely negative tone’.
As I recall, when you hear the “tone”, you are locked and can fire.
Yes. Newstin merely evaluates tone. But *tone* or rather *emotion*, not reason or truth, is mostly a Leftist value.
Thanks, Leftists/Communists: Now I know which sites I want to visit, and why.
It's only a matter of time where it's used for political purposes - suppress dissent...?
I agree - this is a sword that can cut any way the wielder chooses. It’s part of the reason that Net privacy and tracking issues are so important. Makes you wonder about the uses any large organization can put this technology - credit bureaus for instance.
I’d never heard of this site before this post. How popular and well-known is it? Its impact will only be as great as the number of “eyeballs” it can verify coming to it. Remember that every click we give it drives up its ability to sell ads, and keeps it going.
Orwell’s Big Brother has a place - it’s about 1/2 inch wide, on my bookshelf. Or perhaps in the imagination, of things to avoid.
One more thing - this site is based in the Czech Republic.
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