trinker / sentimentr

Dictionary based sentiment analysis that considers valence shifters
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Sentiment function lower/upper bound #87

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Is there a lower/upper bound for the value returned by the sentiment function?

trinker commented 6 years ago

The score is unnbounded. This info should feature more prominantly in the documentation (help file & README). PRs welcome.

trinker commented 6 years ago

I went to add this and see it is in there:

yielding an unbounded polarity score ($\delta_{i,j}$) for each sentence