What is Sentiment Analysis and why you should care.

0
487

Share on LinkedIn

First let’s look at the definition of the Sentiment Analysis [Wikipedia]:

Sentiment analysis or opinion mining refers to a broad (definitionally challenged) area of natural language processingcomputational linguistics and text mining. Generally speaking, it aims to determine the attitude of a speaker or a writer with respect to some topic. The attitude may be their judgment or evaluation (see appraisal theory), their affective state (that is to say, the emotional state of the author when writing) or the intended emotional communication (that is to say, the emotional effect the author wishes to have on the reader).”

And why you should care?

Social Media and Social Networking have fueled the online space. Ratings, reviews, comments, etc – are everywhere.  From NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html :

“This is more than just an interesting programming exercise. For many businesses, online opinion has turned into a kind of virtual currency that can make or break a product in the marketplace.”

We tell our clients – you have to listen to what people are saying about your brand, products, services… and more importantly you should react, respond. Nicely said than done. Simple Twitter search on iPhone will give you tons of results. Is it possible for a brand to manually look at the every single mention and respond?? Of course not! Automation is the strategy… But – smart automation. As a consumer I do not want to get some irrelevant auto-response from a brand.

Solution – analysis of the unstructured texts. Not just on a set of keywords, but also on emotions. Not an easy task to do, but there are visionary companies who are working on tools/products that can help brands to deal with all these amounts of unstructured content and help them to make sense of the emotions hidden behind customer’s feedback.

We were able to gather an amazing panel of experts who will take us on a journey inside the fascinating space of sentiment analysis.

Save the date! You do not want to miss these discussions!

Date: March 2, 2010

Location: Mountain View, CA

Time: 6:30 pm

More Information and Register Here!

Republished with author's permission from original post.

Tatyana Kanzaveli
Tatyana Kanzaveli has broad experiences in sales/marketing/technology areas. She held executive roles in number of start-ups and large multinationals. She was an early adopter of social media/social networking channels, using them to build successful online and face-to-face communities. Tatyana runs strategic social media marketing consultancy http://scrmworld.com . She can be reached on Twitter: @glfceo.

ADD YOUR COMMENT

Please use comments to add value to the discussion. Maximum one link to an educational blog post or article. We will NOT PUBLISH brief comments like "good post," comments that mainly promote links, or comments with links to companies, products, or services.

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here