Integrating Stanford CoreNLP with Talend Studio Datalytyx

In my previous blog Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Talend, I showed how to extract tweets from Twitter using Talend and then how to do some basic sentiment analysis on those tweets. In this post, I will introduce the Stanford CoreNLP toolkit and show how to integrate it with Talend to perform various NLP (Natural Language Processing) analyses including sentiment analysis. Previously I had managed to perform some basic sentiment analysis on tweets. However, I'd noticed a major flaw with my technique: the method I was using would take each word in a sentence and average the sentiment score of each word. I explain the issue in more detail in my original post, but to give you a flavour of it, I'll show you some examples of correct/incorrect sentiment identification that would result from my previous method: This is incorrect as it should be fairly obvious that this sentence carries negative sentiment.