On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 09 Feb 2016, at 18:18, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > 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. > > > Even that will not work. The AI will just add more opinions and more > emotions, > I would say that it will work in the sense that people want to know the opinion of an entity with super-human capabilities. That's all it is really... > and will make things more complex. > But that's the name of the game. "Nature" seems to be just a complexification process. > AI will never solve any problem, it will, if successful, only add > problems. Like multicellular organism have added problems to life, like how > to go out of the ocean, or how to go out of earth, etc. > > Such technics will develop, but will not solve any problem, just add new > one, for the best and/or the worst. > Of course, but good scientists are a bit sneaky. They have to pretend to be extreme utilitarians so that they can have the resources to attempt transcendence. :) Best, Telmo. > > Best, > > Bruno > > > > > 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. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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.
