Welcome to another edition of TGIF. Here’s hoping you’ve had a good week and that you’re looking forward to the weekend despite that! Weekends are a time to do something different from the norm in my opinion. Try a new chocolate bar, go somewhere you’ve never been, buy a al[...]
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March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
January 22nd, 2009 - 9:14 pm § in Opinion mining
Sentiment analysis in text
Sentiment analysis (also opinion retrieval/mining) is a very useful area of research as once fully functional it would enable us to determine the overall sentiment in text. We could for example determine automatically if product reviews are negative or positive, if a blog post is in agreement or d[...]
