WAND Sentiment Analysis Adapter Overview

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Understanding the Scoring System for WAND Sentiment Analysis

The WAND Sentiment Analysis Adapter is used to score structured and unstructured textual content by identifying positive, neutral, and negative sentiment found within emails, documents, and database records. Textual data from a data source can be passed to the adapter by:

Joining the column containing the textual data from the data source to the column within the WAND Sentiment Analysis Adapter used to define the textual data to be scored.
A report which uses Cluster Join metadata. The Cluster Join metadata already contains the join from the column containing the textual data from the data source to the column within the WAND Sentiment Analysis Adapter used to define the textual data to be scored.
Using a WHERE/IF condition to pass textual data directly to the column within the WAND Sentiment Analysis Adapter used to define the textual data to be scored.

Understanding the Scoring System for WAND Sentiment Analysis

The score returned from the WAND Sentiment Analysis Adapter ranges from -1 to 1.

A score of -1 identifies the sentiment of the textual data that was passed to the adapter as extremely negative.
A score of 0 identifies the sentiment of the textual data that was passed to the adapter as neutral.
A score of 1 identifies the sentiment of the textual data that was passed to the adapter as tremendously positive.

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