EuroLoveMap: Confronting feelings from News

Opinion mining is a natural language analysis task aimed at obtaining the overall sentiment regarding a particular topic. This paper presents a prototype that presents the overall sentiment of a topic based on the geographical distribution of the sources on this topic. The prototype was developed in a single day during the hackathon organised by the OpeNER project in Amsterdam last year. The OpeNER infrastructure was used to process a large set of news articles in four different languages. Using these tools, an overall sentiment analysis was obtained for a set of topics mentioned in the news articles and presented on an interactive worldmap.