lookupEstimationMethod

Decides upon a estimation method for dictionary generation. Input is a name for the estimation method, output is the corresponding function object.

Performs a sentiment analysis of textual contents in R. This implementation
utilizes various existing dictionaries, such as Harvard IV, or finance-specific
dictionaries. Furthermore, it can also create customized dictionaries. The latter
uses LASSO regularization as a statistical approach to select relevant terms based on
an exogenous response variable.

Nicolas Proellochs

SentimentAnalysis

Dictionary-Based Sentiment Analysis

Stefan Feuerriegel

lookupEstimationMethod function

<dl><dt>type</dt>
<dd>A string denoting the estimation method. Allowed values are <code>lasso</code>, <code>ridge</code>,
<code>enet</code>, <code>lm</code>, <code>glm</code> or <code>spikeslab</code>.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Estimation method — lookupEstimationMethod

<dl>

<dt>type</dt>
<dd>A string denoting the estimation method. Allowed values are <code>lasso</code>, <code>ridge</code>,
<code>enet</code>, <code>lm</code>, <code>glm</code> or <code>spikeslab</code>.</dd>

</dl>

lookupEstimationMethod: Estimation method

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