Introduction to Sentiment Analysis with SpaCy

Explore sentiment analysis using spaCy in this 41-minute conference talk from EuroPython 2018. Gain insights into extracting opinions from natural language texts, focusing on reviews and social media comments. Learn about sentiment analysis fundamentals, topic extraction, and rating systems while discovering how to leverage spaCy's tools and extend them with lexicon-based approaches. Follow along with code examples in a Jupyter notebook, covering sentence and word splitting, lemmatization, pipeline extension, and sentiment consolidation across multiple words. Although the examples use German text, translations are provided, making the content accessible to non-German speakers. Delve into this extended version of a PyDays Vienna 2018 talk, offering practical knowledge applicable to multiple languages.