Scenario:

Jens wants to rent a science-fiction movie. He has seen Matrix and Inception. His friend has recomended him to rent Avatar. What should he do?

The obvious solution is to take a look at the IMDb score of each of these movies. All of them are rated as being very good!

But Jens doesn't like any science fiction movie. He particularly enjoys a good story in a movie. So is then Avatar a good choice for him?

What do other users say? Take a look at some user reviews...

• Positive: “Now this movies graphics are gorgeous, everything is so real, the 3D just adds to the effect beautifully without distracting you.”  “Fantastic visual experience.”    “Special Effects: Yes. They were impressive”
• Negative:  “I guess the only noticeable problem with Avatar, is a lack of original story.” “Plot: Terrible, shameful and embarrassing.”

So user reviews are helpful but there are almost 3000 reviews for Avatar alone! Nobody will read that much just to rent a movie!
How about evaluating them automatically?

Goal of the IfIS - SEP: Build Movie Miner, a web service for navigating through movies.

Movie Miner should be able to:

• extract typical movie features like 'acting performance', 'special effects', 'suspense', 'character depth', 'plot', 'story', etc. users talk about in their IMDb reviews;
• analyze user opinion with respect to these features;
• and then it should display them in an intuitive user interface.