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by ncza 4081 days ago
Can someone recommend an easy setup for analysis of German texts to see if they are positive or negative? I was too stupid myself to find and use something.
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The only thing that's easy about sentiment analysis is doing it badly.
Are there no "solutions for managers" yet that require no knowledge of the backgrounds?
The solution for managers is outsourcing or hiring people who know what they are doing. Sentiment analysis is touching so many different topics in the area of text-analysis, its seriously not very easy. I wouldn't say its as hard as quantum mechanics, but you need a fair share of maths and programming skills to do it properly and know how to use the tools, imho.
As far as I know you can start with the pre-trained models for the Apache OpenNLP library. And from there on use a translator or something similar?