Sentimental

SentiMental - Putting the Mental in Sentimental

Sentiment analysis tool for node.js based on the AFINN-111 wordlist.

Version 1.0 introduces performance improvements making it both the first, and now fastest, AFINN backed Sentiment Analysis tool for node.

Install

$ npm install Sentimental

Features

• Positivity ranking
• Negativity ranking
• Analyze - combines Positivity and Negativity ranking into an aggregate sentiment score

Example

var analyze = require('Sentimental').analyze,
    positivity = require('Sentimental').positivity,
    negativity = require('Sentimental').negativity;

analyze("Hey you worthless scumbag"); //Score: -6, Comparative:-1.5
positivity("This is so cool"); //Score: 1, Comparative:.25
negativity("Hey you worthless scumbag"); //Score: 6, Comparative:1.5
analyze("I am happy"); //Score: 3, Comparative: 1
analyze("I am so happy"); //Score: 6, Comparative: 1.5
analyze("I am extremely happy"); //Score: 12, Comparative: 3
analyze("I am really sad"); //Score: -4, Comparative: -1

Running Tests

To run the test suite first invoke the following command within the repo, installing the development dependencies:

$ npm install

then run the tests:

$ make test

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Kevin M Roth <[e-mail]>

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