Is it better to use pos, neu and neg to determine the sentiment?

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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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Is it better to use pos, neu and neg to determine the sentiment? #92

Closed bright1993ff66 closed 4 years ago

bright1993ff66 commented 4 years ago

Hi, I am working on an twitter sentiment classification task. I think the compound method does not work well in cases like the following:

text: "I am at ping chi street bus stop."

The result is like the following:

{'pos': 0.0, 'neg': 0.268, 'compound': -0.296, 'neu': 0.732}

The stop here just means the bus stop. But the sentiment analyzer regards this as a negative notation...

cjhutto commented 4 years ago

Thanks for identifying this.
Made a change that accounts for "bus stop", and is extensible as new cases are identified.