SocialSent: Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons

The word soft may evoke positive connotations of warmth and cuddliness in many contexts, but calling a hockey player soft would be an insult. If you were to say something was terrific in the 1800s, this would probably imply that it was terrifying and awe-inspiring; today, terrific basically just implies that something is (pretty) good. A word's sentiment or connotation depends on the domain or context in which it is used. However, previous computational work in natural language processing largely ignores this issue, and focuses and building and deploying generic domain-general sentiment lexicons. SocialSent is a collection of code and datasets for performing domain-specific sentiment analysis.