Dear Charles Meltwater is a commercial tool that lets you analyse sentiment. It allows you to track social media as well as regular media using specific search strings and you can compare different publications and it can also search behind paywalls. It is normally quite pricey, but they have a classroom project that universities can sign up to where students enrolled in a specific course use it for free. Best Alette Alette Schoon (PhD) Senior Lecturer Documentary Filmmaking, Mobile and Internet Studies School of Journalism and Media Studies Rhodes University South Africa https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alette_Schoon -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Charles M. Ess Sent: 05 September 2019 12:52 PM To: air-l <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] emotion detection machine? Dear colleagues, One of our students is wanting to analyze emotional content in in the comment fields of a major newspaper vis-a-vis specific hot-button issues. She has a good tool (I think) for scrapping the data - but she is stymied over the choice of an emotion analysis tool. She has looked at Senpy (http://senpy.gsi.upm.es/#test) and Twinword <https://www.twinword.com/api/emotion-analysis.php> - the latter seems the most accurate, but it is also expensive. She has recently discovered DepecheMood emotion lexicons (Staiano, J., & Guerini, M. (2014). Depechemood: a lexicon for emotion analysis from crowd-annotated news. arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1605.) - but this suffers from a lack of clarity in terms of explaining its emotional categories: awe, indifference, sad, amusement , annoyance, joy, fear and anger. For my part, I am entirely clueless. Any suggestions that she might pursue would be greatly appreciated. best, - charles ess -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/