Polisent
Work done in adapting general purpose sentiment lexicons for domain specific use. We specifically used word embeddings from the political domain to automatically learn new polarity values using SentProp.
Authors: Tim Kreutz and Walter Daelemans
Paper: Enhancing General Sentiment Lexicons for Domain-Specific Use
Overview
The methods used are available in this repository, but they rely heavily on the socialsent package which needs:
- python (2.7)
- theano (0.8.0)
- keras (0.3.3)
- sklearn (0.19)
- numpy
- scipy
The lexicon, embeddings, tweet data are all available and can be downloaded and tested by running example.sh.