Submission + - Sentiment Mining: Can any such technology succeed? (cnet.com)
ashtophoenix writes: "CNET has an article that talks about Web data mining to figure out sentiments from Blog Postings, Forums and such. Can any such technology ever succeed? After all they all are prone to the sincerity and integrity of the poster. Doesn't it come down to a basic human problem, that is, is a person speaking the truth or is he or she lying or trying to manipulate an opinion. As much an algorithm can be sophisticated, how can we successfully write a program to solve a problem that we haven't been able to solve in real life!"