EvLex: Evaluative Lexicon

In almogsi/TATE: Text Analysis Tools for English

Description

The function takes a string as an argument and returns the mean value of valence, extremity and emotionality. The function executes lemmatization of the string and returns the value of the lemmatized input. The value is based on Rocklage & Fazio (2015).

Usage

EvLex(x)

Arguments

x	An obejct of class character.

Details

If the function returns NaN, it means no input text was found in the word list.

Author(s)

Almog Simchon

References

Rocklage, M. D., & Fazio, R. H. (2015). The Evaluative Lexicon: Adjective use as a means of assessing and distinguishing attitude valence, extremity, and emotionality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 214-227.

Examples

EvLex("I'm fun")
     Valence    Extremity Emotionality
        7.84         3.34         5.63
        

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