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Military-grade IBM kit senses love, hate in Wimbo fans' tweets
Although Andy Murray lost to Roger Federer at Wimbledon this month, he managed to ace the pair's Twitter contest. Britain’s best tennis hope since Fred Perry didn't just feature in more tweets than his Swiss rival, he also surfed a tidal wave of plaudits on the social networking site. More than 490,000 tweets mentioned Murray, …
Sentiment Analysis
There are so many reasons whySetiment Analysis is crap.
Mat Morrisons sums it all up very well here:
http://www.slideshare.net/mediaczar/negative-sentiment-or-sentiment-analysis-is-shte-8504018
Given that most humans can't understand what another human is saying without context and cultural reference points, how can computers?
And how does the IBM supercomputer handle sarcasm?
Re: Sarcasm
And how does the IBM supercomputer handle sarcasm?
Heh... "super"computer...
'Military-grade'
Your search for '"military-grade" site:theregister.co.uk' returned 28,000 hits..
Re: 'Military-grade'
It's because it's a military grade site. Originally all this news was set up as a dedicated feed for the A-Team, but it was kindly opened up to us too.
Re: 'Military-grade'
"Your search for '"military-grade" site:theregister.co.uk' returned 28,000 hits.."
What's the Reg unit for that? An "Afghan wedding party"?
Bad taste I know, but you can't help but have a low opinion of the "war machine" these days.
Please back-off, I can smell your breath.
Big brother wants to put a chip in your noggin. Twitter today, email tomorrow. What's next ... is that another Google Street View drive-by again? It's the third one in the last hour. I believe they are circling.
While David doesn't feel human emotions, he does understand them. ;)
mil-spec
So, does Obama unleash Predator drones if he finds tweeters hating on the US team?
