Comments on: Google Maps Sentiment Analysis; Foreign Speakers Need Not Apply? http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Sat, 25 May 2013 22:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450863 Mike Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:07:52 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450863 @Kyle

I am by no means a code monkey and am not the person to assess Google’s programming. That being said, it has not stopped me before. :)

My sense is that sentiment analysis would require too much precision that would likely be lost in translation.

Everything Google does in local is done to scale world wide. That would include the sentiment analysis. Obviously sentiment analysis is of little value if it isn’t in the native tongue. Therefore one needs to assume that they have the long term capacity to roll it out in the native tongues.

Thus their failure to do so would be for one of two reasons (maybe both)

1)There are not enough native language reviews to stoke the sentiment analysis engine.

and/or

2)It was rolled out in English initially and will be coming out on a language by language basis as they get to it.

]]> By: Kyle Kazak http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450862 Kyle Kazak Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:01:55 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450862 @Mike, The setiment analysis algorithm is written in English most likely.

Thus when Google is crawling the reviews in a foreign country they probably translate it to English then apply the algorithm.

My gut shot feeling is they forgot to include a re-translate aspect of the algorithm to bring it back into french etc.

Writing the algorithm in 500 different languages would be foolish, use the tools at hand to decode them (Google Translate) then analyze the data then re translate it back to the local countries language.?

Thoughts?

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450856 Mike Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:29:17 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450856 @Jean-Noël

Will the French find this acceptable? What do they think?

]]> By: Jean-Noël http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450853 Jean-Noël Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:18:56 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450853 It’s a very nice discovery and post ! Thanks :-)

]]> By: Kyle Kazak http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450840 Kyle Kazak Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:00:13 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450840 @Mike Sentiment analysis algorithm must be exceptionally complex, especially since every country has a slightly different way of doing things.

In this case someone probably just forgot that it was in English. I’ll tell you something, If I was using Google Maps in France and came across that I would be a-little mad, especially since it’s NOT IN MY LANGUAGE!

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450837 Mike Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:47:15 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450837 @Earl

Only if you are French :)

]]> By: Earlpearl http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/21/google-maps-sentiment-analysis-foreign-speakers-need-not-apply/comment-page-1/#comment-450827 Earlpearl Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:51:51 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=5618#comment-450827 oooh la la. c’est terrible, n’est pas?

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