Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis attempts to provide a basis for understanding peoples feelings toward an entity such as a person, thing, or idea

Analyzing sentiment

Sentiment analysis attempts to provide a basis for understanding peoples feelings toward an entity such as a person, thing, or idea. It is applied to social media and brand management as a method of discerning the direction of public opinion. 

In reputation management we use sentiment analysis in a somewhat different way. It is both automated and human-based. We look at sentiment in the context of search results and visibility. Something with strongly negative sentiment that is far back in search results is less of a threat than something of slighly negative sentiment that sits at the top of page one in Google or Bing. 

Resources on sentiment analysis

• Monkey Learn
• Lexalytics
• Introduction to Natural Language Processing
• What are biometrics?
• What is "voice of the customer"?

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