How to start a mood analysis?

Question

Can someone give some starting points on how to get started with mood analysis.

It would be great if you could provide some open source tools that can be used for this task.

I am currently watching GATE ( http://gate.ac.uk ) and RapidMiner ( http://rapid-i.com/ ), but I think I'm in the middle of nowhere and I don’t have enough reason to start working with these tools ...

It would be helpful if someone who had previous experience with GATE / RapidMiner explained how to get started with them.

Answer 1

both GATE and RapidMiner are powerful text analysis and mood analysis tools. I personally prefer RapidMiner because it has become easier for me to study, and the RapidMiner training courses provided by Rapid-I gave me a very quick start. They offer a special course in the analysis of intellectual analysis and mood analysis: Analysis of moods, intellectual research and automated marketing research .

Starting in September or October 2009, they will also offer webinars. You should contact them directly if you want to know more about your webinars. Several large online research companies in Europe and the US use RapidMiner to analyze opinions and analyze sentiment from online discussion groups and web blogs. For more information and links, I would just ask their team to contact (at) rapid-i.com or check out their RapidMiner forum at forum.rapid-i.com.

Yours faithfully,

Franc

Answer 2

Another option is to use LingPipe, which is a very good tutorial to speed up your search in mood analysis. LingPipe has integration for GATE, which you can read about here here .

Answer 3

For GATE specifically, materials from our regular training courses are available on the wiki . In particular, module 12 of June 2012 discusses how to use GATE to develop opinions.