[R] Question about NRC lexicon usage

[peter dalgaard]

It is not obvious that this is an R question, but 2 suggestions

(a) some emotions are not clearly positive or negative (e.g. anticipation)
(b) emotions possibly not mutually exclusive 

-pd

> On 31 Jul 2019, at 09:11 , Mehdi Dadkhah <mehdidadkhah91 using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I hope you are doing well!
> I used NRC lexicon and did sentiment analysis on my data. the result is:
> 
>         sentiment         count
> anger               574
> anticipation 1400
> disgust          236
> fear                 978
> joy                   729
> sadness            578
> surprise         405
> trust              2125
> negative         1531
> positive          3853
> 
> Total count of emotions: 7025
> Total count of positive and negative sentiments: 5384
> I am faced with a question: Why total count of emotions is not equal with
> total count of sentiment?
> 
> I attached my R Code.
> Thank you!
> With best regards,
> 
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> *Mehdi Dadkhah*
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