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Internet sources, such as newsgroups, message boards, and blogs, are an under-exploited resource for developing analyses of community and market responses to everything from consumer products and services, to current events and politics. In this paper, we present an overview of our exploration of effective ways of characterizing this large volume of information. In our approach, we first create time-series that represent the subjects, opinions, and attitudes expressed in the Internet sources, and then generate “Linguistic Summaries” that provide natural and easily understood descriptions of the behaviors exhibited by these time-series.
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Tong, R.M., Yager, R.R. (2006). Characterizing Buzz and Sentiment in Internet Sources: Linguistic Summaries and Predictive Behaviors. In: Shanahan, J.G., Qu, Y., Wiebe, J. (eds) Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4102-0_21
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