Senior Project Advisor
Ed Love
Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Spring 2023
Keywords
sentiment analysis, cable news, linguistic analysis
Abstract
This project aims to provide a tool for sentiment and linguistic analysis of news content. Specifically, the intended purpose of this research is to assess the variability of language use across cable news. In order to accomplish this, a Python script was written that allows the researcher to produce a specific set of sentiment/linguistic analysis output as well as statistical analysis of that output. While the code is written specifically to analyze cable news transcripts, it can be modified to perform the same analysis on any text of interest, news or otherwise. The output of this code allows the researcher to further explore the variability in linguistic use across multiple sources.
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Department
Finance and Marketing
Recommended Citation
Bannister, Caitlin, "SENTIMENTAL VALUE: Developing a model for sentiment & linguistic analysis of cable news" (2023). WWU Honors College Senior Projects. 746.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/746
Type
Text
Rights
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf