AFINN-96

A list of English words rated for valence.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/datasets-afinn-96

Usage

var afinn96 = require( '@stdlib/datasets-afinn-96' );

afinn96()

Returns a list of 1468 unique English words (and phrases) rated for valence. Negative words have a negative valence ([-5,0)). Positive words have a positive valence ((0,5]). Neutral words have a valence of 0.

var words = afinn96();
/* returns
    [
        ['abandon',-2],
        ['abandons',-2],
        ['abandoned',-2],
        ['absentee',-1],
        ['absentees',-1],
        ['aboard',1],
        ['abducted',-2],
        ['abduction',-2],
        ['abductions',-2],
        ['abuse',-3],
        ['abused',-3],
        ...
    ]
*/

Notes

• The list is an earlier version of AFINN-111.
• The list contains duplicated words.
• The list includes misspelled words. Their presence is intentional, as such misspellings frequently occur in social media content.
• All words are lowercase.
• Some "words" are phrases; e.g., cashing in, cool stuff.
• Words may contain apostrophes; e.g., can't stand.
• Words may contain dashes; e.g., cover-up, made-up.

Examples

var afinn96 = require( '@stdlib/datasets-afinn-96' );

var words;
var dict;
var len;
var i;

words = afinn96();

// Convert to a dictionary...
len = words.length;
dict = {};
for ( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
    dict[ words[i][0] ] = words[i][1];
}
console.dir( dict );

References

• Nielsen, Finn Årup. 2011. "A new ANEW: Evaluation of a word list for sentiment analysis in microblogs." In Proceedings of the ESWC2011 Workshop on 'Making Sense of Microposts': Big things come in small packages., 718:93–98. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-718/paper_16.pdf.
• Hansen, Lars Kai, Adam Arvidsson, Finn Årup Nielsen, Elanor Colleoni, and Michael Etter. 2011. "Good Friends, Bad News - Affect and Virality in Twitter." In Future Information Technology: 6th International Conference, FutureTech 2011, Loutraki, Greece, June 28-30, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, edited by James J. Park, Laurence T. Yang, and Changhoon Lee, 34–43. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22309-9_5.

License

The data files (databases) are licensed under an Open Data Commons Attribution 1.0 License and their contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. The original dataset is attributed to Finn Årup Nielsen and can be found here. The software is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

See Also

• @stdlib/datasets-afinn-96-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.
• @stdlib/datasets-afinn-111: A list of English words rated for valence.

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