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Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence with Java
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On 06/15/2014 06:49 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:
> Giovanni R. wrote:
>
>> I'd like to create an application using Java where users give a phrase in
>> input and the application says if it's a /negative/ or /positive/ phrase.
>>
>> Where should I start?
>
> The phrase you want to feed into a search engine is "natural language
> processing".
>
>> Has AI already solved this kind of problems?
>
> Probably (or to put it another way -- I doubt whether AI is necessary):
> depending on what you mean by negative or positive: for instance is "<some
> name> is a <some insult>" negative (because of the insult) or positive (because
> it makes a positive statement) ?
>
> As an exercise, consider what part of the problem /wouldn't/ be solved by
> testing whether the phrase contained the word "not" (including contractions).
>
Memento for me. "Contextual Valence Shifters"
<http://aaaipress.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/2004/SS-04-07/SS04-07-020.pdf>