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Validating a sentiment dictionary for German political language - a workbench note
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Abstract Automated sentiment scoring offers relevant empirical information for many political science applications. However, apart from English language resources, validated dictionaries are rare. This note introduces a German sentiment dictionary and assesses its performance against human intuition in parli... view more
Automated sentiment scoring offers relevant empirical information for many political science applications. However, apart from English language resources, validated dictionaries are rare. This note introduces a German sentiment dictionary and assesses its performance against human intuition in parliamentary speeches, party manifestos, and media coverage. The tool published with this note is indeed able to discriminate positive and negative political language. But the validation exercises indicate that positive language is easier to detect than negative language, while the scores are numerically biased to zero. This warrants caution when interpreting sentiment scores as interval or even ratio scales in applied research.... view less
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
German; political language; sentiment analysis; sentiment dictionary; text analysis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 319-343
Journal
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 15 (2018) 4
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180851
ISSN
1933-169X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed