Description
GENERAL SENTIMENT company was cofounded in 2008 by Dr. Steven Skiena, a PhD in computer science, and Mark Fasciano, who also founded FatWire.
The underlying technology platform, a natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis system called Lydia, was developed by Dr. Steven Skiena at Stony Brook University.It uses Apache Hadoop to process large quantities of data.
General Sentiment’s software accurately predicted the winner of the American Idol Finale in 2011.General Sentiment's core system includes a natural language processing engine to analyze text and entity management to track entities. The frontend consists of depository servers and the Social Intelligence Platform, which hosts a number of applications that are useful for brand measurement. General Sentiment offers a software as a service (SaaS)-based solution delivered via the Amazon Cloud.
In December 2010, an official Google blog implied that the search engineowned General Sentiment’s sentiment analysis.Unique to General Sentiment is a patented ad-value-equivalency metric called Media Value, which places a dollar value on the media buzz about a specified topic.The technology performs auto-entity extraction to automatically identify and track entities. General Sentiment is currently tracking more than one billion entities and has some historical data dating back to 2004.
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