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sentopics (version 0.7.4)

LoughranMcDonald: Loughran-McDonald lexicon

Description

The Loughran-McDonald lexicon for financial texts adapted for usage in sentopics. The lexicon is enhanced with two list of valence-shifting words.

Usage

LoughranMcDonald

Arguments

Format

A quanteda::dictionary containing two polarity categories (negative and positive) and two valence-shifting categories (negator and amplifier).

References

Loughran, T. & McDonald, B. (2011). When Is a Liability Not a Liability? Textual Analysis, Dictionaries, and 10-Ks. The Journal of Finance, 66(1), 35--65.tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01625.x")

See Also

JST(), rJST()

Examples

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JST(ECB_press_conferences_tokens, lexicon = LoughranMcDonald)

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