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Monday, Mar 13, 2006
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E-Mail Good or bad, news is news N. Nagaraj
A view of the MoodNews site.
Your friend says, "There is some good news and there is some bad news." You know what he means: We got the tickets to the concert but have separate seats. Your newspaper just gives you the facts; you take a call on whether the news is good or bad. But how would you like to get your news already classified as good news or bad news? The good news is that the MoodNews project at http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/ is trying to do exactly that. The site marks news as good (green), bad (red), or neutral (blue) with the saturation level of the colour indicating if it is very good news, or just good news. At present, MoodNews works only with the BBC news Web site. It makes some gaffs - "Africa could face more droughts" (March 3) was labelled as neutral. Of course, this is because the Web site is at the proof of concept stage and the classification is automated based on the words in the article. The bad news? Well, it isn't available on your e-mail yet to see if your boss is going to pat you or `drat' you!
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