Anyone come across a forum research tool?

[iwodaveh]

Just a random thought crossed my head today, what if there was a tool to glance through forums/ specific topics on forums and gather the insightful data.


For instance, companies could find out what problems are being faced by consumers and why is it that one product ain't doing so well

 

[flaw3d]

ahrefs has a mention tracker....

 

[dchuk]

What you're asking for is like a combo of sentiment analysis and natural language parsing, and I'm pretty sure no one is even close to offering something robust enough to identify specific questions/problems for your brand/product/whatever.

A mention tracker is simple but a decent start at least for monitoring where your keywords are mentioned on the web.

 

[alvito]

What does a mention tracker do, is it only used to check social signals online?

 

[emp]

AlchemyAPI has a sentiment analysis

Demo | AlchemyAPI

So.. scrape the forums, then feed into Alchemy

::emp::

 

[emp]

Just did that with this thread (minus my post)

Document Sentiment

Description Value
Document Sentiment Mixed
Targeted Sentiment

Calculate the targeted sentiment for entities, keywords and/or user-specified targets. Learn more about how to enable sentiment analysis for entities and keywords.

Target Type Sentiment
natural language Entity positive
ahrefs Entity neutral
mention tracker Keyword positive
forums/ specific topics Keyword positive
natural language parsing Keyword positive
insightful data Keyword positive
random thought Keyword neutral
decent start Keyword positive
sentiment analysis Keyword positive
specific questions/problems Keyword positive

::emp::

 

[alvito]

Emp:

I went through that site, and it's still quite naive, not as robust NLP as possible.

 

[ToddW]

Probably a lot faster and easier to go to Yahoo Answers and other sites like that to see what problems / questions consumers are having

 

[alvito]

Yea, but I think what the OP wants is some automation to do that, rather than visiting all sites on the net to find out the questions/problems that some might have.

I'm surprised though that a place like Google hasn't done anything about this so far

 

[nighthaze]

brb startup on the way