[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-23 Thread Joseph
Tom, thanks for the link. I've been to the site in the past. I just revisited, and entered "Sarah Palin" in the search box. It returned 50 tweets, labeled 39 as neutral, 5 positive and 6 negative. I checked the actual tweets, and here's what I found: - Neutral: I only found one (maybe). The other

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-23 Thread tomz
http://tweetsentiments.com uses Machine Learning and NLP for sentiment analysis. No published API access yet(some already available), but it's on the road map. Currently sacrificing some precision for speed, but we will focus on improving precision in the near future.

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-23 Thread Joseph
Based on the search keyword "tude" and what follows it: (, ) or ?, I made the same guess myself, but I did not want to assume anything. Interesting link. I used to do some of that to analyze posts on a forum in the early days of the internet (to weed out impostors), but it did not work well. On J

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-23 Thread Bjoern
On Jul 22, 8:49 pm, Joseph wrote: > That's what I meant. Short of doing a search, with tude[]=%3A) and > store it in my cache (which will eat up a lot of API calls), do you > have any hints on how to extract this out of the API? Isn't it just searching for the Strings ":-(", ":-)" and "?"? I don

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Joseph
That's what I meant. Short of doing a search, with tude[]=%3A) and store it in my cache (which will eat up a lot of API calls), do you have any hints on how to extract this out of the API? Thanks, Joseph On Jul 22, 10:52 am, Doug Williams wrote: > Joseph,I assume you mean the sentiment portion

[twitter-dev] Re: Detecting positive / negative / question

2009-07-22 Thread Doug Williams
Joseph,I assume you mean the sentiment portion of the Search API? That is not available as structured data through an API call. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Joseph wrote: > > Is the attitude (tude) flag stored as part of a tweet? and if so, do > any of the data structures re