quanteda.dictionaries

An R package consisting of dictionaries for text analysis and associated utilities. Designed to be used with quanteda but can be used more generally with any text analytic package (e.g. tidytext, tm, etc.).

Installing

# the devtools package needs to be installed for this to work
devtools::install_github("kbenoit/quanteda.dictionaries") 

Demonstration

With the liwcalike() function from the quanteda.dictionaries package, you can easily analyze text corpora using exising or custom dictionaries. Here we show how to apply the Lexicoder Sentiment Dictionary (Young and Soroka 2012) to a corpus consting of 2000 movie reviews (from the quanteda.corpora package).

library("quanteda.dictionaries")

output_lsd <- liwcalike(quanteda.corpora::data_corpus_movies, 
                        dictionary = data_dictionary_NRC)

head(output_lsd)

##           docname Segment  WC       WPS Sixltr   Dic anger anticipation
## 1 neg_cv000_29416       1 847  78.88889  13.11 19.36  0.71         2.95
## 2 neg_cv001_19502       2 278 240.00000  10.79 24.46  3.24         3.24
## 3 neg_cv002_17424       3 559 162.66667  16.46 21.29  1.07         2.86
## 4 neg_cv003_12683       4 594 239.50000  16.67 22.73  1.35         3.03
## 5 neg_cv004_12641       5 872 366.50000  19.04 19.38  1.26         1.49
## 6 neg_cv005_29357       6 753 671.00000  18.33 27.49  3.32         1.59
##   disgust fear  joy negative positive sadness surprise trust AllPunc
## 1    0.83 1.42 2.36     2.24     4.01    1.42     1.30  2.13   18.06
## 2    2.16 1.80 1.44     4.32     2.88    1.44     1.08  2.88   18.35
## 3    0.72 2.68 1.43     3.40     4.11    1.79     0.54  2.68   14.67
## 4    1.18 1.85 1.52     4.21     5.05    1.85     1.18  1.52   22.90
## 5    0.69 2.06 1.49     3.90     3.33    1.72     1.38  2.06   17.66
## 6    2.39 4.25 0.80     5.98     3.45    1.99     1.86  1.86   11.02
##   Period Comma Colon SemiC QMark Exclam Dash Quote Apostro Parenth OtherP
## 1   4.01  5.19  0.35  0.00  0.71   0.35 1.18  3.07    1.89       0  14.76
## 2   5.04  6.47  0.00  0.00  0.00   0.00 0.00  5.40    4.68       0  16.91
## 3   3.94  5.55  0.00  0.00  0.54   0.00 0.54  2.68    2.68       0  12.70
## 4   3.37  4.38  0.00  0.00  0.51   0.00 4.71  7.58    4.21       0  15.82
## 5   4.24  6.19  0.69  0.23  0.11   0.00 1.95  2.18    1.72       0  13.65
## 6   4.65  3.98  0.13  0.00  0.00   0.00 0.53  0.93    0.40       0   9.69

Code of Conduct

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