Calls the NRC sentiment dictionary to calculate the presence of eight different emotions and their corresponding valence in a text file.
get_nrc_sentiment(char_v, cl = NULL, language = "english", lowercase = TRUE)
A data frame where each row represents a sentence from the original file. The columns include one for each emotion type as well as a positive or negative valence. The ten columns are as follows: "anger", "anticipation", "disgust", "fear", "joy", "sadness", "surprise", "trust", "negative", "positive."
A character vector
Optional, for parallel analysis
A string
should tokens be converted to lowercase. Default equals TRUE
Saif Mohammad and Peter Turney. "Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk to Create an Emotion Lexicon." In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text, June 2010, LA, California. See: http://saifmohammad.com/WebPages/lexicons.html