Microsoft Program uses Blogs to Analyze News
WashPost | Interesting niche news analysis, but do we really need to spend more time obsessing about these things? Do we really want to make Fox/CNN stronger?
The research group, based at the company's Redmond, Wash. headquarters, is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them. Then, to see which stories really excite the partisans, the program further aims to measure the "emotional intensity" of the blog posts that a news story has inspired. The intensity measure is based on the frequency of key words, such as "criminal" and "lying," in the blog posts. Check out the hideous design here.
WashPost | Interesting niche news analysis, but do we really need to spend more time obsessing about these things? Do we really want to make Fox/CNN stronger?
The research group, based at the company's Redmond, Wash. headquarters, is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them. Then, to see which stories really excite the partisans, the program further aims to measure the "emotional intensity" of the blog posts that a news story has inspired. The intensity measure is based on the frequency of key words, such as "criminal" and "lying," in the blog posts. Check out the hideous design here.
