Harvesting human feelings from blogs
We Feel Fine uses large scale blog analysis to provide a glimpse inside the hearts and minds of people all around the world. Once a sentence containing ‘I feel’ or ‘I am feeling’ is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence, and then saves the full sentence in a database. Once saved, the sentence is scanned to see if it includes one of about 5,000 pre-identified ‘feelings’. We Feel Fine is divi...