For more information about SEANCE, see https://www.linguisticanalysistools.org/seance.html
This tool was conceptualized by Scott Crossley and Kristopher Kyle and implemented in Python by Kristopher Kyle.
For Mac OSX, download the SEANCE_1_2_0_Mac.zip file (found under the "releases" tab). After extracting the SEANCE program from the .zip file, double-click the icon to open the program. Note that you may have to change your security preferences to open SEANCE. For Windows 7, 8, and 10 (64-bit versions only), download the SEANCE_1_2_0_win.zip file (found under the "releases" tab). After extracting the SEANCE program from the .zip file, double-click the icon to open the program. Note that after clicking on the SEANCE icon, a terminal (Mac) or command prompt (Windows) window will open. SEANCE will take 10-20 seconds to initialize, depending on the speed of your program.
The source code for SEANCE 1.2.0 is also available. For SEANCE to work properly the user must have spaCy installed (see https://spacy.io/usage/ for instructions).
After downloading and extracting the SEANCE_1_2_0_Py3.zip file, the user can start the program using the following command: $ python SEANCE_1_2_0.py
If you use SEANCE in your work, please use the following citation:
Crossley, S. A., Kyle, K., & McNamara, D. S. (2017). Sentiment analysis and social cognition engine (SEANCE): An automatic tool for sentiment, social cognition, and social order analysis. Behavior Research Methods 49(3), pp. 803-821. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0743-z.
SEANCE is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ for more information