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Re: Show HN: Positive News Reader based on sentiment analysis

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Post by Yeroniomus »

owlmirror wrote: post #10

Does the system learn about an users preference and classify news tailored to your personal profile, or does it simply do a general prediction?

Not now. It does a general prediction. Maybe I will add this feature in future releases.

Re: Show HN: Positive News Reader based on sentiment analysis

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Post by jwilliams »

Yeroniomus wrote: post #12
Animats wrote: post #9

If 3 of the 4 top "good news" stories mention Trump, as seen in the ad, there may be a problem.

Yes, not very good screenshot for the landing page. But all of the predictions were made by AI :-)

I think that's something really important to consider -- related the tailoring/personalization question in this thread too.

I looked at the page and every article (picked by AI) was quite negative in the sense that I believe it. They were articles about geopolitical grandstanding, extrajudicial executions of drug dealers, etc. Even if you took the pro-con Trump angle out (if possible), and put in I'd still not consider them positive topics.

My immediate reaction was this was really incongruent. I imagine it'll be for many others too.

Re: Show HN: Positive News Reader based on sentiment analysis

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Post by pknight »

Concept is great! The screenshots don't inspire a sense of it working effectively though. I don't think raw sentiment analysis is enough. 'Good' news to me has one or more of the following qualities:

- It's actionable - It's informative in a pragmatic sense - It invokes a positive emotion, such as curiosity, wonder, appreciation, hope, fascination, delight, laughter - It doesn't aimlessly invoke apathy/fear/anger/disgust/disappointment/hopelessness - It has substance and is more than a mere report or thin and reflexive reaction - It isn't tailored to reinforce a specific political agenda - It's within a domain of interest - It makes be better equipped to deal with the world

That rules out almost all news articles and virtually all of the examples in the screenshots. I don't think that kind of selecting can be done purely with a sentiment analysis.

Re: Show HN: Positive News Reader based on sentiment analysis

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Post by vollmond »

pknight wrote: post #14

Concept is great! The screenshots don't inspire a sense of it working effectively though. I don't think raw sentiment analysis is enough. 'Good' news to me has one or more of the following qualities: - It's actionable - It's informative in a pragmatic sense - It invokes a positive emotion, such as curiosity, wonder, appreciation, hope, fascination, delight, laughter - It doesn't aimlessly invoke apathy/fear/anger/dis…

The political agenda one is important. "Good" news to me in some areas of society are very much not good news to some other people (say, an abortion-related court case being decided).
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