International Business Machines Corporation
Sentimental and emotional analysis of electronic documents

Abstract:

Provided is a method and system for recommending an e-book. A processor may collect reader data related to a plurality of e-books from a plurality of user devices. The processor may determine an interest score for each section of a plurality of sections of each e-book. The processor may identify a set of sections from the plurality of sections that meet a predetermined interest score threshold. The processor may analyze the set of sections to determine a sentimental score for each section. The processor may generate a scoring matrix using the interest score and the sentimental score for each section of each e-book. The processor may compare scoring matrices of each e-book of the plurality of e-books. The processor may identify two or more e-books having similar scoring matrices. The processor may provide a recommendation to a user based on the identified two or more e-books.