Wed.Aug 10, 2011

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Is It Time To Reconsider Sentiment Scoring?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In a recent blog post called The Problem with Automated Sentiment Analysis from Fresh Networks, a social media agency, they evaluated a few sentiment tools and their results are quite similar to what we’ve found in a number of our own experiments: - About 80% of posts are neither positive nor negative. - Sentiment tools “accuracy&# of 70% to 80% is largely driven by their ability to correctly label neutral posts. - “In our tests when comparing with a human ana

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