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VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is a python lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool that is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media.

VADER Sentiment Analysis. VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is a lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool that is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media, and works well on texts from other domains. It is fully open-sourced under the MIT License.

Hosting is done on github.

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How is the Vader 'compound' polarity score calculated in Python NLTK?

I'm using the Vader SentimentAnalyzer to obtain the polarity scores. I used the probability scores for positive/negative/neutral before, but I just realized the "compound" score, ranging from -1 (most neg) to 1 (most pos) would provide a single…
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Is it possible to edit NLTK's vader sentiment lexicon?

I would like to add words to the vader_lexicon.txt to specify polarity scores to a word. What is the right way to do so? I saw this file in AppData\Roaming\nltk_data\sentiment\vader_lexicon. The file consists of the word, its polarity, intensity,…
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Is Vader SentimentIntensityAnalyzer Multilingual?

I'm stuck in sentiment analysis and I found Vader solution which is the best I could find so far. My issue is that I don't find any doc on how to feed it with languages other than English.
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Is there a way to improve performance of nltk.sentiment.vader Sentiment analyser?

My text is derived from a social network, so you can imagine it's nature, I think text is clean and minimal as far as I could imagine; after performing following sanitization: no urls, no usernames no punctuation, no accents no numbers no…
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VADER polarity_scores returning output as "Neutral" in most cases

In most cases, I am finding that polarity_scores returning output as "Neutral" whereas there should be some % of negative and positive sentiments highlighted e.g. consider the following cases, I found {'neg': 0.0, 'neu': 1.0, 'pos': 0.0,…
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Example of NLTK's Vader Scoring Text

I would like someone to correct my understanding of how VADER scores text. I've read an explanation of this process here, however I cannot match the compound score of test sentences to Vader's output when recreating the process it describes. Lets…
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How to get the positive score only?

I am new to sentiment analysis.I want to get the positive score only not all like compound,neg ,pos,neutral.Can anyone help me to achieve this? sid = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer() ss = sid.polarity_scores(sentence) thanks in advance.
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How to labeling text based on aspect term and sentiment

I have coded to label text data by term aspect then sentiment with vader lexicon. But the result is only output -1 which means negative and 1 which means positive, where there should be 3 classes of positive, negative and neutral. Here is the code…
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How to apply scatter plot and line chart on a dataframe for my bitcoin sentiment analysis?

I want to be able to create a scatter plot and line chart and find out if there is a relationship between the price of Bitcoin and the sentiments of the tweets of the people. I have a column that is Compound, Positive, Neutral, and Negative and I…
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How to update emoji in vader lexicon?

I want to update the chart up and chart down emojis sentiment values in the vader lexicon. Seeing this post (VaderSentiment: unable to update emoji sentiment score) I have tried to replicate it but with no success: new_words = { "chart…
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Unable to add new words in Vader Lexicon using for loop. It works without the loop perfectly. How do I solve this?

I use vader for Sentiment Analysis. When I add a single word in addition to the Vader lexicon, it works i.e. it detects the new added word as either positive or negative based on the value I give with the word. Code is below: from…
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Python VADER lexicon Structure for sentiment analysis

I am using the VADER sentiment lexicon in Python's nltk library to analyze text sentiment. This lexicon does not suit my domain well, and so I wanted to add my own sentiment scores to various words. So, I got my hands on the lexicon text file…
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How to add our own sentences and polarities in Vader Sentiment Analysis

I am using vader sentiment analysis to analyze covid 19 related tweets. But in the bi grams and tri grams I have seen that words like " positive covid " , "positive cases", "tested positive", "test positive" are categorized under positive sentiments…
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Python - Splitting positive/negative/neutral/ feedback sentiment score from Vader into separate columns and adding it to data set

I'm trying to determine the sentiment score for customer feedback using VADER in python. The simple code below is running perfectly for individual feedback and returning a dictionary of negative, neutral, positive and compound score. Code: from…
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Unable to get polarity scores from Vader Sentiment Analyzer

I am trying to add these new words and their corresponding polarity scores from a CSV file into Vader Sentiment Lexicon It also reflects in the vadersentiment object when it is updated: But as soon as I try to get the polarity scores for the newly…
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