Language-Features-for-News
NOTE: This code is for research purposes only!
NOTE: This repository is deprecated. Please use the updated version at:https://github.com/BenjaminDHorne/NELAFeatures.
NOTE: This repository requires the LIWC 2007 Dictionary. To access the dictionary, please contact Dr. James Pennebaker: pennebaker@utexas.edu. The dictionary can be placed in the resources folder once aquired.
This repository contains natural language features used in the NELA Toolkit (https://github.com/BenjaminDHorne/The-NELA-Toolkit) and various news studies (see http://homepages.rpi.edu/~horneb/).
Before using, ensure you have all Python requirements in requirements.txt and the resource folder.
To use simply change the following parameters in Compute_all_features.py:
outfile - name of csv file to output
outpath - path to write outfile
text_file_start_path - path to set of text files or folders of text files to process. The filename will be used as the vector ID in output
If you only want to compute a subset of features, simply comment out feature function calls, and change the output variables.
Also, keep in mind many of these features are from many other awesome researchers. This is simply an aggregation of my original features and many other features borrowed from others. Many have been shown useful in different news or social media text scenerios, others have not. Please see the feature page in the NELA toolkit for citations.
Any publication resulting from the use of this work must cite the following publication::
Benjamin D. Horne, William Dron, Sara Khedr, and Sibel Adali. "Assessing the News Landscape: A Multi-Module Toolkit for Evaluating the Credibility of News" WWW (2018).
Copyright (c) 2017, Benjamin D. Horne
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