Trait Analysis to Facilitate Children’s Books Recommender Systems: Extracting perspective and sentiment traits from book fulltext and descriptions

Recommender systems are a useful tool for match- ing readers with books. However, the lack of user data from children, both due to privacy concerns as well as a low incentive to leave reviews, results in existing systems proving inadequate at recom- mending to the youth. It has been shown that chil- dren have a different relation regarding...

CITYSENT: Sentiment analysis of the Netherlands and Flanders

The department of Urbanism at the TU Delft, our clients, research the sentiment in different places, times, ages or genders and compare them to each other. This report describes the purpose, design, implementation and accuracy of a web tool created to get insights into the sentiment people have, de- ducted from social media. The aim of our...

Statistical analysis to depict the influence of news headlines on stock volatility

A statistical approach to depict stock volatility based on general news headlines by exploiting Machine Learning methods such as sentiment analysis and neural networks. The results from the analysis are then used in the financial market with a particular trading strategy, called a bottom straddle. We conclude that not enough information can be...