deamplification.words: De-amplifying Words
Description
A dataset containing a vector of words that de-amplify word
meaning.Usage
data(deamplification.words)
format
A vector with 13 elementsDetails
Valence shifters are words that alter or intensify the
meaning of the polarized words and include negators and
amplifiers. Negators are, generally, adverbs that negate
sentence meaning; for example the word like in the
sentence, "I do like pie.", is given the opposite meaning
in the sentence, "I do not like pie.", now containing the
negator not. Amplifiers are, generally, adverbs or
adjectives that intensify sentence meaning. Using our
previous example, the sentiment of the negator altered
sentence, "I seriously do not like pie.", is heightened
with addition of the amplifier seriously. Whereas
de-amplifiers decrease the intensity of a polarized word as
in the sentence "I barely like pie"; the word "barely"
deamplifies the word like.