Open Collaboration#

Open collaboration with the community is at the core of our vision. We firmly believe that the power of collective intelligence can drive transformative progress in sentiment analysis. We value the insights and expertise of the wider community, and we actively encourage contributions from researchers, scholars, and practitioners alike.

We invite users to actively participate in shaping the future of sentibank by suggesting additions and requesting new sentiment lexicons. Your input is invaluable in ensuring that sentibank remains comprehensive and up-to-date, reflecting the ever-evolving landscape of sentiments across diverse domains.

Moreover, we welcome the opportunity to collaborate with passionate individuals and teams to create entirely new sets of sentiment dictionaries. Whether you’re an expert in a specific field, a data enthusiast, or simply someone with a passion for emotions and data, there’s a place for you at sentibank.

This section provides guidelines for contributing new lexicons, requesting modifications, and contributing to the codebase.

Sharing New Lexicons#

Creating high-quality sentiment lexicons requires careful consideration of the scope, data sources, annotation process, and format. We welcome new lexicons that meet our contribution criteria.

💡We are currently collaborating with domain experts to create a new gold-standard sentiment dictionaries on various social science topics, including ideology, current_affairs, market, cryptocurrency, politics, activism_reform, academic, esg, and society. If you are a researcher willing to lend your expertise in our progress, please reach out to research@socius.org.

Requesting Additions and Modifications#

sentibank focuses on including high-quality lexicons from reputable sources. Requests for additions/changes should:

  • Identify meaningful gaps not covered by current lexicons

  • Provide details if incorrect annotations are suspected

  • Limit to openly licensed or permissioned sources

  • Avoid recommending proprietary, nonpublic lexicons

Lexicon requests can be submitted via our issue on Github.