>its effectively spam-assassin for news, but slightly different. Wow - that's a slightly terrifying concept: the ability to filter news according to your personal preferences so you only get 'good' news delivered to you... Very 1984. *Shudder*
The mood would indeed only work effectively if it leant your preferences and filtered accordingly - in effect, the current system suggests that it is 'Bad news in the eyes of right thinking people' - it would look different if the intended audience was, say, Bond Villains. Thought - wonder if a system with user-based feedback loop would be effective at catching stories that are 'spun'? Ie, cross referencing a 'mood' against the yes/no votes of the users would yield some way of spotting editorial bias, or stories that are released to sweeten potentially damaging/worrying stories with palliative good news (not necessarily by the journalists, but maybe at source)? Have you thought about running a similar 'mood detector' through video transcripts, or ficiton? It could be a useful addition to a reccomendation engine? kim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Dicken Sent: 18 July 2005 11:13 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [backstage] Mood News 3 > A really clever site would ask you for your point of view (or > remember when > you disagree) and adjust accordingly. A complex task though... A feedback neural network should be able to solve it reasonably straight-forwardly (although you would need a large sample of data with which to train the network on a per-user basis, which could also give large overheads) - its effectively spam-assassin for news, but slightly different. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
