You can try by yourself. https://alchemy-language-demo.mybluemix.net/
Imagine analyzing product reviews to determine if it was positive or negative. Type "I like it", and see the inaccurate targeted sentiment (neutral sentiment instead of positive).
Imagine analyzing product reviews to determine if it was positive or negative. Type "I like it", and see the inaccurate targeted sentiment (neutral sentiment instead of positive).
If you change your example from 'I like it' to 'I like puppies', the 'targeted sentiment' changes from neutral to 'puppies positive 0.550431'.
While the first example you found does seem odd, the rest seems to work quite well. Maybe it just has problems attaching 'it' to a 'target'.
I don't seem to hate it.
I don't seem to like it.
Edit: In fact it can even be fooled just by increasing the linear distance between a positive term and negation. The following is rated +0.6!
I don't in any way shape or form like it.
Edit: My suspicion was confirmed when I tried "I like it a lot" had a positive sentiment with 0.711.
Quite a few seemingly similar AI/natural language/etc problems are actually very separate.