Kolloquiumsvortrag: Sentiment analysis: Theory and applications

Abstract:
Sentiment analysis is a field that study how to automatically capture sentiments of the general public about social events, political movements, marketing campaigns and product preferences. Regarding the latter, sentiments allow the personalization of another type of systems called recommendation systems that we see day by day in services like Amazon or Tripadvisor. This talk will explain the basics of them to understand how some of these web platforms can work.