Contents for my thesis

              This report shows the topics which I would handle with in my graduation thesis. Currently, there are a lot of subjects which I hope to look into, but it would be necessary to narrow down the options in order to make my thesis more plain and understandable for readers as well as for myself. As previously conducted for evaluating methods, this time, I also assessed some of the topics and tried to find out what I should treat for my final report.

              First of all, my most focused theme for my final report must be “Sentimental Analysis”. This is because the method seems relatively new compared to other linguistic analysis approaches and, in Japan, many people still do not know even what it is. As a result, there is no Japanese page on Wikipedia for this jargon yet. If I analyze various phenomenon using this technique, my thesis can be unique one which other Japanese scholars have never written. In addition, thanks to the recent the rapid development of computer technology, there are a lot of software which conduct diverse linguistic analysis including “Sentimental Analysis”. The assessment for those would be also interesting and make my thesis instructive.

              In order to make the most use of the latest mean, I would need to find the proper subjects to analyze with it. Currently, there are some categories for that. First one is the media trend about “Syrian refugee crisis”. This topic seems to have notable changes over the periods, so we would be able to find interesting results from them. Second is the news reports for 2016’s US election. As you already know, the political race this year have been one of the most unique ones. Therefore, we could expect a lot of various sentimental elements in the news for it. Thirdly, Japanese sensational movement “Kanryu (Korean wave)” might be one of the candidates for my research. This is because the Korean movement in Japan had had strange trend changes and it had seemed that media coverages had had great influence for it. 

             In addition to “Sentimental Analysis”, I also want to look into its analysis tool itself. As I stated above, so many new evaluation tools for “Sentimental Analysis” are there these days. So scrutinizing those would lead to very interesting outcomes for my thesis.

              Finally, by writing this report, I could find that deciding the topics for my thesis is much more difficult and critical thing than looking for some methods or data. It would be necessary for me to trim away the needless parts and focus on the most important ones so as to make my thesis simple and understandable.