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Python NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo

Python NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo

This is a demonstration of sentiment analysis using a NLTK 2.0.4 powered text classification process. It can tell you whether it thinks the text you enter below expresses positive sentiment, negative sentiment, or if it’s neutral.

Using hierarchical classification, neutrality is determined first, and sentiment polarity is determined second, but only if the text is not neutral.

Home | Conscious Style Guide

Home | Conscious Style Guide

Conscious Style Guide is a simple and accessible community resource for anyone curious or serious about conscious language. In one place, you can access style guides covering terminology for various communities and find links to key articles debating usage.

We study words so that they can become tools instead of unwitting weapons. Brought to you by the creator of AP vs. Chicago.

mols on Twitter: “The term “Web Engineer” intrigues. “Engineer” implies: Scientific method, creation, invention, systems, social apps, design, visualization.”

I don’t know if there’s a uniform Mozilla position on this, but here’s mine! :) … | Hacker News

Source: I don’t know if there’s a uniform Mozilla position on this, but here’s mine! 🙂 … | Hacker News

I don’t know if there’s a uniform Mozilla position on this, but here’s mine! 🙂 The main reason I care about the Web is because it’s the world’s biggest software platform that isn’t owned. If someone can deliver their app to the world without submitting it for review by an app store and without paying a company a %-age of the revenue, and if they can market it through the viral power of URLs, then they have a lot more control over their own destiny. That’s why I think it’s important for the Web not to give up on hard but solvable problems.

But also I think there’s a false dichotomy between “the Web should just be for documents” and “the Web should just be for apps.” The Web is simultaneously an application platform that blows all other platforms out of the water for delivering content. First, there’s a reason why so many native apps embed WebViews — despite its warts, CSS is the result of hundreds of person-years of tuning for deploying portable textual content.

But more importantly, you just can’t beat the URL. How many more times will we convince the entirety of humanity to know how to visually parse “www.zombo.com” on a billboard or in a text message? It’s easy to take the Web for granted, it’s fun to snark about its warts, and there’s a cottage industry of premature declarations of its death. But I personally believe that the humble little hyperlink is at the heart of the Web’s power, competitive strength, and longevity. It was a century-old dream passed on from Vannevar Bush to Doug Englebart to Xerox PARC and ultimately to TBL who made it real.

Orality and Literacy | A Working Library

Orality and Literacy | A Working Library

Ong’s is perhaps the only book I’ve discovered that carefully and thoroughly addresses the differences between oral and literate cultures.

In pointing out that Plato used writing to deliver his objections to the written word, he says,

“Once the word is technologized, there is no effective way to criticize what technology has done with it without the aid of the highest technology available.” (page 79).