MIT Technology Review: Mining for
MIT Technology Review: Mining for MeaningOnline newsgroups are popular gathering spots; over the years they've logged millions of opinions on topics ranging from politics to appliances... All these postings add up to a trove of public opinion that sociologists, linguists and market researchers would love to analyze; and software projects at IBM and the University of California at Berkeley are beginning to develop the analytical tools they'll need. Unlike Web search engines, which try to find the best matches for any one query, these efforts focus on understanding how communities of individuals interact online, and how their opinions evolve.
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