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Rethinking Customer Feedback: Measuring Sentiment by Topic Instead of Overall Score

March 1, 2026
Customer feedback is often reduced to a single score. Topic-level sentiment measurement - formalized through Sentiment Balance Score (SBS) - analyzes positive and negative sentiment by topic, revealing what people actually feel about specific parts of an experience.

Sentiment Balance Score (SBS): A Technical Specification for Topic-Level Sentiment Measurement and Benchmarking

March 1, 2026
A technical specification of Sentiment Balance Score (SBS): a topic-level sentiment metric derived from open-ended feedback using aspect extraction, weighted polarity, Bayesian smoothing, and benchmark normalization.