Hi Samiya, We have to be careful. This uses a technique usually referred to as "sentiment analysis" and sometimes as "opinion mining". There is extensive research on using it for things like election forecasting, and the results are not exactly encouraging...
The idea is very interesting in itself, but the current methods are quite limited. The common approaches are: 1) Using a dictionary where every word is annotated by humans in terms of a score for each base emotion, do a lookup for the entire text and present the final summation; 2) Using machine learning to train a model to recognize emotions taking into account n-grams, instead of a single word. The first method is very naif, many words have quite different emotional valencies depending on context. It also fails to detect sarcasm and other complexities of human language. The second method could in principle work much better, but it requires a large corpus of text annotated by emotional valencies. Such corpora exist for specific applications, but models trained that way tend to not work when you deviate too much from the context of the training data. Religious texts are most likely too far away from any useful training corpora. Worse still, we are comparing translations from vastly different cultures and linguistic backgrounds. Some people suspect (me included) that producing a reliable sentiment analysis algorithm requires solving the general problem of AI. Best, Telmo. On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > Bible, Quran and Violence > Software uses scripture to show what text analysis can do: > http://m.toledoblade.com/Religion/2016/02/06/The-Bible-the-Qur-an-and-violence-computerized.html > > > Samiya > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
