Positive Reinforcement

I spoke at the NFAIS 11 annual conference last week in Philadelphia. As I was speaking, my colleagues back in the office were tracking tweets from the conference audience describing what I was saying. They wanted to run a sentiment analysis on the tweets and then text me an update during my talk as to how I was doing. Unfortunately the tweets were non-sentimental, just reportage. Wouldn't it be great having a real-time sentiment analysis feedback system? I know in the last presidential election they had the audience pressing buttons up and down to express their sentiment as the presidential candidates squared off on a live debate, but I'm talking about bigger than a few hundred and unstructured. Only a matter of time..

Anyway, I'll take it as good thing no-one expressed negative sentiment about my talk. John Blossom wrote a very good summary - way better than anything any existent automated content summarization tool we know about or have made ourselves could do - here.