README

Simple german text sentiment analyser

Features

• German sentiment word dictionary "SentiWS"
• PSR-4 autoloading compliant structure
• Unit-Testing with PHPUnit

Installation

To get the latest version of Sentiment Analysis, simply add the following line to the require block of your composer.json file:

composer require aheissenberger/sentimentanalyser:dev-master

Usage

Returns a positive number for positive sentiment association and negative number for negative sentiment association.

$var = new aheissenberger\sentimentanalyser\Sentiment;
echo $var->analyse('Es ist nicht so toll');
//=> (negative)

Create Dictionary from SentiWS

php -f ./helper/create_dict.php > ./src/dicts/de.php

Credits

This project is based on this javascript implementation: https://github.com/syzer/sentiment-analyser

German sentiment word dictionary "SentiWS" http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/de/download

R. Remus, U. Quasthoff & G. Heyer: SentiWS - a Publicly Available German-language Resource for Sentiment Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Language Ressources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 1168-1171, 2010