VADER can't parse the word 'bad ass'?

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VADER Sentiment Analysis. VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is a lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool that is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media, and works well on texts from other domains.

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VADER can't parse the word 'bad ass'? #141

Open letitburn00 opened 2 years ago

letitburn00 commented 2 years ago

I am running a sentiment analysis on a large corpus of tweets in R. VADER successfully returned sentiment scores for all but five tweets, which returned 'ERROR' in the word scores field. Upon inspection of these tweets, I noticed that they all contained the word 'bad ass'. When replacing 'bad ass' with 'badass', sentiment scores are successfully returned. It seems like this is a bug?

Deepankar-98 commented 2 years ago

Can you confirm what error are you getting? I ran both the strings and its working fine for me. See below screenshot:

letitburn00 commented 2 years ago

Hi, the error may actually be unrelated to the word 'bad ass', but is somehow solved by replacing it with 'badass'? I wasn't able to replicate the problem on the exact strings I was working with before, but the same problem occurred for a new one: vader_error Scores were successfully returned for other tweets with 'bad ass'. I don't see any glaring issues with the above text, so I'm not sure what the problem could be.