13. A computer readable storage device comprising computer executable instructions that when executed perform a method for assessing an emotional sentiment related to a topic, comprising: identifying first social media content comprising a first link to a first article associated with the topic; assessing an emotional sentiment related to the first article as a function of one or more terms in the first social media content; identifying second social media content comprising a second link to a second article associated with the topic and comprising content similar to the first article, the second article comprising content similar to the first article when S(a i ,a j )/size(a i ) exceeds a predetermined threshold, where S(a i ,a j ) is a number of terms of a largest set of infrequent terms between the first article (a i ) and the second article (a j ) and size (a i ) is the number of terms in the larger of articles a i and a j ; assessing an emotional sentiment related to the second article as a function of one or more terms in the second social media content; and aggregating the emotional sentiment related to the first article with the emotional sentiment related to the second article to assess the emotional sentiment related to the topic.
13. A computer readable storage device comprising computer executable instructions that when executed perform a method for assessing an emotional sentiment related to a topic, comprising: identifying first social media content comprising a first link to a first article associated with the topic; assessing an emotional sentiment related to the first article as a function of one or more terms in the first social media content; identifying second social media content comprising a second link to a second article associated with the topic and comprising content similar to the first article, the second article comprising content similar to the first article when S(a i ,a j )/size(a i ) exceeds a predetermined threshold, where S(a i ,a j ) is a number of terms of a largest set of infrequent terms between the first article (a i ) and the second article (a j ) and size (a i ) is the number of terms in the larger of articles a i and a j ; assessing an emotional sentiment related to the second article as a function of one or more terms in the second social media content; and aggregating the emotional sentiment related to the first article with the emotional sentiment related to the second article to assess the emotional sentiment related to the topic. 14. The computer readable storage device of claim 13 , the assessing an emotional sentiment related to the first article comprising: assessing the emotional sentiment related to the first article via a maximum entropy classifier configured to output a binary output indicative of the emotional sentiment related to the first article and a confidence score indicative of a confidence of the binary output.