Heads up!
This tutorial was made for Textalytics and as such, it has become obsolete. You can read the updated version for MeaningCloud in this post.
MeaningCloud provides an API to carry out advanced opinion mining, Sentiment Analysis, which extracts both a global aggregated polarity of the text and a more in-depth analysis, giving a sentence-level breakdown of the polarity, extracting entities and concepts and the sentiment associated to each one of them.
Marvel’s Black Widow #1
What makes MeaningCloud Sentiment Analysis API different is the possibility of defining entities and concepts for each call of the API, allowing you to obtain the same detailed sentiment analysis for entities or concepts specific to the domain of your application.
We are going to use comic book reviews to learn how to use this feature, as it’s a very rich domain in which it’s easy to illustrate how useful user-defined concepts and entities can be. This applies either to this field or to others where sentiment comes into play, such as hotel reviews, Foursquare tips, Facebook status updates or tweets about a specific event.
