A review of sentiment computation methods with R packages
Maurizio Naldi
TL;DR
This paper reviews four R packages for sentiment analysis, highlighting their features such as custom dictionary support and negator handling, to guide users in selecting appropriate tools.
Contribution
It provides a comparative analysis of R sentiment analysis packages, emphasizing their capabilities and limitations for practical use.
Findings
Only Sentiment R properly handles negators.
All packages support custom dictionaries.
The review guides users in choosing suitable sentiment analysis tools.
Abstract
Four packages in R are analyzed to carry out sentiment analysis. All packages allow to define custom dictionaries. Just one - Sentiment R - properly accounts for the presence of negators.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Text Analysis Techniques · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Data Visualization and Analytics