4. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the one or more sentiments associated with the topic comprises: obtaining a subset of the content items containing the topic; and using a classification technique to generate a set of sentiments for the subset of the content items.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the one or more sentiments associated with the topic comprises: obtaining a subset of the content items containing the topic; and using a classification technique to generate a set of sentiments for the subset of the content items. 5. The method of claim 4 , wherein obtaining the one or more sentiments associated with the topic further comprises: filtering the subset of the content items by a category of the content items prior to aggregating the sentiments into the sentiment distribution for the topic.