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1. Sentiment Analysis

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   Lexicon-based methods rely on predefined dictionaries where words are manually or semi-automatically assigned polarity scores. A corpus is scored by summing the polarities of its constituent words.
   The Guttman Polarity Scale (GPS)/), developed in the mid-1980s for use in early affective accounting systems, categorizes polarity using 17 discrete levels, where level 1 is Absolute Elation and level 17 is Existential Despair. Neutrality is assigned level 9.5, reflecting an intentional half-step bias towards pot…