sentixr: Lexicons and Tools for Italian Sentiment Analysis

Lexicons and tools to perform sentiment analysis on Italian texts. Lexicons included: Sentix 3.0, MAL, ElIta VAD and basic emotions (Plutchik's wheel of emotions). For more details about the lexicons, see Basile & Nissim (2013), "Sentiment Analysis on Italian Tweets", <https://aclanthology.org/W13-1614/>; Vassallo et al. (2019), "The Tenuousness of Lemmatization in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis", <https://aclanthology.org/2019.clicit-1.79/>; Di Palma (2024), "ELIta: A New Italian Language Resource for Emotion Analysis", <https://aclanthology.org/2024.clicit-1.36/>.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1), dplyr, tidyselect, rlang
Imports: udpipe
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, tidytext, spacyr, readtext, tibble, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), remotes, quanteda, mockery
Published: 2026-06-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sentixr (may not be active yet)
Author: Agnese Vardanega ORCID iD [aut, cre], Valerio Basile ORCID iD [aut], Eliana Di Palma ORCID iD [aut], Giuliano Gabrieli ORCID iD [aut], Marco Vassallo ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Agnese Vardanega <avardanega at unite.it>
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/valeriobasile/sentixr
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en, it
Materials: README
CRAN checks: sentixr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: sentixr.html , sentixr.pdf
Vignettes: sentixr with tidytext and quanteda (source, R code)
Introduction to sentixr (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: sentixr_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: sentixr_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): sentixr_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): sentixr_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): sentixr_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): sentixr_0.2.0.tgz

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