Seance: SEntiment Analysis and Cognition Engine
SEANCE is an easy to use tool that includes 254 core indices and 20 component indices based on recent advances in sentiment analysis. In addition to the core indices, SEANCE allows for a number of customized indices including filtering for particular parts of speech and controlling for instances of negation.
SEANCE takes plain text files as input (it will process all plain text files in a particular folder) and produces a comma separated values (.csv) spreadsheet that is easily read by any spreadsheet software.
Please use the following citation when referencing SEANCE:
Crossley, S. A., Kyle, K., & McNamara, D. S. (2017). Sentiment analysis and social cognition engine (SEANCE): An automatic tool for sentiment, social cognition, and social order analysis. Behavior Research Methods 49(3), pp. 803-821. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0743-z. article
SEANCE takes plain text files as input (it will process all plain text files in a particular folder) and produces a comma separated values (.csv) spreadsheet that is easily read by any spreadsheet software.
Please use the following citation when referencing SEANCE:
Crossley, S. A., Kyle, K., & McNamara, D. S. (2017). Sentiment analysis and social cognition engine (SEANCE): An automatic tool for sentiment, social cognition, and social order analysis. Behavior Research Methods 49(3), pp. 803-821. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0743-z. article
Current Version: 1.2.0 (released 11-1-2018)
SEANCE index spreadsheet
SEANCE user manual (revised 11-2-2018)
SEANCE 1.2.0 (Mac OSX)
SEANCE 1.2.0 (64-bit Windows 7, 8, and 10)
SEANCE 1.2.0 (Python 3)
*NOTE
If a notification pops up saying "Windows protected your PC", click on "More info" and then "Run Anyway" to bypass the pop up and run the app.
Previous Versions:
SEANCE 1.0.5 user manual (revised 6-18-2018)
SEANCE 1.0.5 index spreadsheet
SEANCE 1.05 for Mac
SEANCE 1.05 for Windows
SEANCE index spreadsheet
SEANCE user manual (revised 11-2-2018)
SEANCE 1.2.0 (Mac OSX)
SEANCE 1.2.0 (64-bit Windows 7, 8, and 10)
SEANCE 1.2.0 (Python 3)
*NOTE
If a notification pops up saying "Windows protected your PC", click on "More info" and then "Run Anyway" to bypass the pop up and run the app.
Previous Versions:
SEANCE 1.0.5 user manual (revised 6-18-2018)
SEANCE 1.0.5 index spreadsheet
SEANCE 1.05 for Mac
SEANCE 1.05 for Windows
SEANCE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Studies that have used Seance
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