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Sentiments Analysis using Python

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After reading an interesting tutorial on Kaggle about Sentiments Analysis applied to American Political Speeches, I decided to create my own version.

Instead of using R, I used Python and I applied my model to French Political Speeches.

I used the lexicons available here, which are from the following paper : Chen, Y., & Skiena, S. (2014). Building Sentiment Lexicons for All Major Languages. In ACL (2) (pp. 383-389).

I used the speeches available on this page.

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I used a Class Speech which contains the following:

  • name of the speaker (Here, the name of the President)
  • year of the speech
  • number of positive words in the speech
  • number of negative words in the speech
  • number of words in the speech
  • a ratio, (number of positive words - number of negative words)/(number of words).

I created a function getLexicons(positiveList, negativeList) which put all the positive words from the positive lexicon into a list, and put all the negative words from the negative lexicon into another list.

I then created another function getSpeechAnalysis(speechName, name, year, positiveList, negativeList) which return a speech class with all the information we need (number of words, number of positive/negative words...).

Then, after initializing the environment with the first function, I applied this last function to a list of speeches (the end-of-the-year speech given by the Frencg President).

Results

I obtained the following results:

  • On this graphe, we can see the positivness ratio evolving among time. We can see where the different Presidents position themselves compared to the moving average. Alt text

  • On this graphe, I draw a boxplot for every President. Thus, we can see the median, the first and third quartile, the maximum and the minimum for every President. Alt text

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