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Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis
http://cran.us.r-project.org/web/packages/qdap/index.html
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wrong reference for Polarity Score? #238

Open randomgambit opened 6 years ago

randomgambit commented 6 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for this amazing package. I am looking at the polarity score https://trinker.github.io/qdap/polarity.html and you say:

The polarity score is dependent upon the polarity dictionary used. This function defaults to the word polarity dictionary used by Hu, M., & Liu, B. (2004),

However, in the reference you mention https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2004/AAAI04-119.pdf which does not use a dictionary at all. Is this a typo? Am I missing something?

Thanks!

trinker commented 6 years ago

No I referenced it because it greatly influenced my thinking in creating this function...it's important to attribute and acknowledge those that influence your thinking. References are not only for some sort of facimile...if that were the case one could never debate with those with oposing methods let alone acknowledge parts we admire and repurpose as did with the polarity function.

randomgambit commented 6 years ago

yes I understand but here you specifically say This function defaults to the word polarity dictionary used by Hu, M., & Liu, B. (2004), thus making people believe you use something that has been developed in a research paper. if the polarity dictionary is yours, you should perhaps say that you built on Hu and Liu, but you came up with your own dictionary. That would be clearer I think

trinker commented 6 years ago

Gotcha. I didn't connect yoir mention of the references to your first point about the dictionary. I thought it was a complaimt about referencing a paper that doesn't utiloze the technique used in polarity. My apologies.

There is indeed a missing reference. "Mining and summarizing customer reviews." http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/publications/kdd04-revSummary.pdf.

good catch. Could you add this refence and do a pull request please?