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What our rating shows

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

We already performed opinion analysis for more than 25 mobile phone models. What does our automatic analysis show for each model? It shows the attitude of the people towards the phone. It reflects its quality, its usability, users expectations (big expectations, for example, make people to express negative opinions about iPhone 3G) and other things. As emotional the people are, as many opinions we detect.

On the other hand, the producers themselves use positive emotional terms to promote their products, currently this is reflected also in our analysis.
Our rating currently detects the positiveness of the attitude of the people towards a certain product. This is often well correlated with the quality, but not only.

The opinion mining is going on…

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The project is still in its early stage, but the prototype is being used successfully. We are running the opinion extraction system for a set of mobile and smart phones and it finds what the people think about these gadgets. In fact, the results seem to be very good up to this moment! On our demo page we published the pages generated by the system.

Just to begin with…

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The world changes, and also the way people perceive this world. We believe that in the recent years the Internet has been changing not only the way we access information, but also the way we think and the way we look at the things around us.

The purpose of our project is to improve the way people evaluate certain objects and ideas around them. We began with collecting and summarizing opinions about products. Our technology is intended to facilitate the way one gets oriented about the quality of a product he or she intends to buy. This technology can also be used to collect information about people and companies…and we do not intend to stop here…