Dictionaries for the Semantic Orientation CALculator
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Version 1.11 (June, 2009)
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SO Calculator is an application for calculating the Semantic Orientation of text documents. It was designed with the domain of online product reviews in mind. The enclosed files are the dictionaries developed for the project.

License
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SO-CAL (Semantic Orientation CALculator)
Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Maite Taboada, Julian Brooke, Kimberly Voll, Caroline
Anthony and Jack Grieve

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


Dictionaries
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The dictionaries are divided by part of speech. For a detailed description of how they
were created, please see the project page:

http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/research/nserc-project.html

and especially this publication:

Taboada, M., J. Brooke, M. Tofiloski, K. Voll and M. Stede (2011) Lexicon-Based Methods for Sentiment Analysis. Computational Linguistics 37 (2): 267-307. 


