Opinion Detector

Component that wraps a machine learned Opinion Detector in Python.

Confused by some terminology?

This software is part of a larger collection of natural language processing tools known as "the OpeNER project". You can find more information about the project at the OpeNER portal. There you can also find references to terms like KAF (an XML standard to represent linguistic annotations in texts), component, cores, scenario's and pipelines.

Quick Use Example

Installing the opinion-detector can be done by executing:

gem install opener-opinion-detector

Please keep in mind that all components in OpeNER take KAF as an input and output KAF by default.

Command line interface

You should now be able to call the opinion detector as a regular shell command: by its name. Once installed the gem normally sits in your path so you can call it directly from anywhere.

This application reads a text from standard input in order process it. It needs models to work. There is a free set of models available trained on a news corpus.

cat englist.kaf | opinion-detector \
      --resource-path /path/to/models \
      --resource-url http://opener.s3.amazonaws.com/Models/final_models_news_20140522.zip

Webservices

You can launch a webservice by executing:

opinion-detector-server

This will launch a mini webserver with the webservice. It defaults to port 9292, so you can access it at http://localhost:9292.

To launch it on a different port provide the -p [port-number] option like this:

opinion-detector-server -p 1234

It then launches at http://localhost:1234

Documentation on the Webservice is provided by surfing to the urls provided above. For more information on how to launch a webservice run the command with the --help option.

Daemon

Last but not least the opinion detector comes shipped with a daemon that can read jobs (and write) jobs to and from Amazon SQS queues. For more information type:

opinion-detector-daemon -h

Description of dependencies

This component runs best if you run it in an environment suited for OpeNER components. You can find an installation guide and helper tools in the OpeNER installer and an installation guide on the Opener Website

At least you need the following system setup:

Dependencies for normal use:

  • Ruby 1.9.3 or newer
  • Python 2.6 or newer
  • lxml

Domain Adaption

TODO

Language Extension

TODO

The Core

The component is a fat wrapper around the actual language technology core. You can find the core technolies in the following repository

Where to go from here

Report problem/Get help

If you encounter problems, please email [email protected] or leave an issue in the issue tracker.

Contributing

  1. Fork it http://github.com/opener-project/opinion-detector/fork
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request