Measuring sentiment at ICWSM
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007I meant to blog at greater length about the ICWSM, which was very enjoyable and instructive. One often finds oneself in that “shall I write about this, or just do it?” dilemma. So I just did it … got talking to a number of clever people about the problems that they and we are experiencing deploying software to do these complicated things we do, and about their solutions and ours.
Things I learnt:
UMBC in Maryland under Tim Finin have a kick-ass team of graduate students. Much respect to Pranam and Akshay …
Twitter is great!
There are some cool betas doing sentimenting for blogs and news (check out textmap)
No one has cracked sentimenting satisfactorily for message boards
As message boards represent c. 85% of the volume of commentary of most of the brands we work for, this remains an issue …
We are a lot closer to solving a number of knotty problems as a result of the conference, though. Congratulations to Nicolas Nicolov of Umbria, Natalie Hurst of Nielsen BuzzMetrics and Matthew Hurst of Microsoft Live Labs inter alia for organising it.
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