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Magnet News: You Choose the Polarity of What You Read

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaPublished 16 May 2014Open access
Júlio C. S. Reis, Pollyanna Gonçalves, Pedro Lira Olmo, Raquel O. Prates, Fabrí­cio Benevenuto
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TL;DR

The Magnet News is presented, a Web tool in which users can choose if they want to see positive or negative news, and monitors the sentiment of news from important newspapers using the SentiStrength, a sentiment method proposed by literature that has been proved to be efficient in previous analysis.

Abstract

When was the last time you read a newspaper and was bombarded with articles you would rather not see? Current news media shows massive number of news every day. But from tragedies to happy stories, people might want to choose to read only those articles that fit their current mood. The purpose of this project is to present the Magnet News, a Web tool in which users can choose if they want to see positive or negative news. Our system monitors the sentiment of news from important newspapers using the SentiStrength, a sentiment method proposed by literature that has been proved to be efficient in previous analysis.

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Computer Science