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Dictionary based sentiment analysis that considers valence shifters
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Do I need to remove stop words? #81

Closed saracmbr closed 6 years ago

saracmbr commented 6 years ago

Hi there, Do I need to remove stop words (not the valence shifters). I realized that " I am very happy" has less score compared to " very happy" using sentiment_by. As far as I know the majority of stop words have 0 sentiment score so the difference should be because of number of words while averaging. I am new to sentiment analysis so any help is appreciated.

trinker commented 6 years ago

No need to remove stopwords.

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:45 AM Sara Shakouri notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi there, Do I need to remove stop words (not the valence shifters). I realized that " I am very happy" has less score compared to " very happy" using sentiment_by. As far as I know the majority of stop words have 0 sentiment score so the difference should be because of number of words while averaging. I am new to sentiment analysis so any help is appreciated.

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