Polarity Scoring

The Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish sentiment grammars (sentiment_ara.ecr, sentiment_chi.ecr, sentiment_cze.ecr, sentiment_eng.ecr, sentiment_fre.ecr, sentiment_ger.ecr, sentiment_ita.ecr, sentiment_pol.ecr, sentiment_por.ecr, sentiment_rus.ecr, sentiment_spa.ecr, and sentiment_tur.ecr) support polarity scoring. This is a number, usually between 0.50 and 1.50, that represents the strength of the sentiment in the matched phrase. For example:

You can edit the user modification files (sentiment_user_ara.xml, sentiment_user_chi.xml, sentiment_user_cze.xml, sentiment_user_eng.xml, sentiment_user_fre.xml, sentiment_user_ita.xml, sentiment_user_pol.xml, sentiment_user_por.xml, sentiment_user_rus.xml, sentiment_user_spa.xml, and sentiment_user_tur.xml) to increase the scores of words in the dictionaries. For example, add the following on a new line in the user modification file to modify the existing entry flexible so that it has a score of 1.23:

"      <entry score="1.23" headword="flexible"/>"

Note: sentiment_basic_eng.ecr does not support polarity scoring.


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