[Corpora-List] Sentiment Analysis "without" Text-Corpora

From: Axel Oepkemeier (Axel.Oepkemeier@stud.fh-koeln.de)
Date: Sat Aug 19 2006 - 19:59:29 MET DST

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    Dear Members of the CORPORA list,

    I would like to ask the community one short question:

    Have you ever seen some (research-)documents about sentiment analysis
    which are using commercial hosts and their databases (e.g.
    Thomson/Dialog) as a source for textual data and NOT using web content
    gathered in a Corpus respectively?

    Why?
    I have done some very basic sentiment analysis without actually "having"
    a Text-Corpus with the method of formulating appropriate queries on
    Dialog-Databases like:

    "SEARCH (concept/idea/product/etc.) (Proximity-Operator)
    (positive/negative occupied words & phrases)" (simplified).

    My intention is to create sentiment time series, without the claim of
    measuring too precisely. A more aggregate level (subjectivity at the
    level of individual documents or articles and above by summing up the
    numbers of hits) is intended.

    I have waded through a fairly huge number of papers and web documents -
    and found nothing.

    Maybe someone can give me a hint or point me to a direction for my
    further search.

    Best regards,
    Axel 

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Axel Oepkemeier

    Axel.Oepkemeier@stud.fh-koeln.de
Student of Information Economics
Fachhochschule  Koeln / University of Applied Sciences Cologne
Fakultaet fuer Informations- und Kommunikationswissenschaften
Institute for Information Science

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