lexicon_afinn: AFINN-111 dataset

Description

AFINN is a lexicon of English words rated for valence with an integer between minus five (negative) and plus five (positive). The words have been manually labeled by Finn Årup Nielsen in 2009-2011.

Usage

lexicon_afinn(
  dir = NULL,
  delete = FALSE,
  return_path = FALSE,
  clean = FALSE,
  manual_download = FALSE
)

Value

A tibble with 2,477 rows and 2 variables:

word: An English word
score: Indicator for sentiment: integer between -5 and +5

Arguments

dir: Character, path to directory where data will be stored. If NULL, user_cache_dir will be used to determine path.
delete: Logical, set TRUE to delete dataset.
return_path: Logical, set TRUE to return the path of the dataset.
clean: Logical, set TRUE to remove intermediate files. This can greatly reduce the size. Defaults to FALSE.
manual_download: Logical, set TRUE if you have manually downloaded the file and placed it in the folder designated by running this function with return_path = TRUE.

Details

This dataset is the newest version with 2477 words and phrases.

Citation info:

This dataset was published in Finn Ärup Nielsen (2011), ``A new ANEW: Evaluation of a word list for sentiment analysis in microblogs'', Proceedings of the ESWC2011 Workshop on 'Making Sense of Microposts': Big things come in small packages (2011) 93-98.

article{nielsen11,
author = {Finn Äruprup Nielsen},
title = {A new ANEW: Evaluation of a word list for sentiment analysis in microblogs},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/1103.2903},
year = {2011},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2903},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {1103.2903},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/journals/corr/abs-1103-2903},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Examples

Run this code

if (FALSE) {
lexicon_afinn()

# Custom directory
lexicon_afinn(dir = "data/")

# Deleting dataset
lexicon_afinn(delete = TRUE)

# Returning filepath of data
lexicon_afinn(return_path = TRUE)
}