From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Date: 2009-09-14T23:20:06+09:00 Subject: Re: (Bayesian) Linguistic Analysis Jp Hastings-spital writes: > Thanks for your reply! > > I guess I'm just looking to see if its been done before, Yes, it is done. http://www.ravenpack.com sells a commercial product based on extracting the sentiments out of financial news... > I'm not worried > about sitting down and working out new algorithms to do precisely this - > in fact it could be quite fun - but there's nothing worse than building > your own then finding there's a ruby class that does just that and more! Well, not exactly a ruby class. It's an industrial grade application written in Common Lisp running on distributed cluster computers (plus an Oracle backend database and some Java code for the user interface (including implementing a scheme in Java to let the user customize their processing of the synthesized data)). (Information infered from http://www.ravenpack.com/aboutus/employment.htm) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__