ExtractSentiment - Aster Analytics

Teradata AsterĀ® Analytics Foundation User GuideUpdate 2

Product
Aster Analytics
Release Number
7.00.02
Published
September 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-04-17
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Product Category
Software

The ExtractSentiment function extracts the sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) of each input document or sentence, using either a classification model output by the function TrainSentimentExtractor or a dictionary model.

The dictionary model consists of WordNet, a lexical database of the English language, and the following negation words:

  • no
  • not
  • neither
  • never
  • scarcely
  • hardly
  • nor
  • little
  • nothing
  • seldom
  • few

The function handles negated sentiments as follows:

  • -1 if the sentiment is negated (for example, "I am not happy")
  • -1 if the sentiment and a negation word are separated by one word (for example, "I am not very happy")
  • +1 if the sentiment and a negation word are separated by two or more words (for example, "I am not saying I am happy")

This function can be used with real-time applications. See AMLGenerator.