Sentiment Analysis Dictionaries

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user387049 picture user387049 · Nov 15, 2010 · Viewed 60.5k times · Source

I was wondering if anybody knew where I could obtain dictionaries of positive and negative words. I'm looking into sentiment analysis and this is a crucial part of it.

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Stompchicken picture Stompchicken · Nov 16, 2010

The Sentiment Lexicon, at the University of Pittsburgh might be what you are after. It's a lexicon of about 8,000 words with positive/neutral/negative sentiment. It's described in more detail in this paper and released under the GPL.

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