Hierarchical sentiment analysis and categorization of college confessions, developed by Jasmeet Arora and Harry Rickards as a final proejct for MIT's 6.S083: Computation and Linguistics class.
For documentation on running each part of the pipeline, see the README.md files inside the individual directories for each pipeline part.
- Scraping (
scraper): downloads raw confessions data from Facebook - Parsing (
parser): parse each confession into a syntactic tree - Sentiment (
sentiment,treelstm) predicts sentiment from parse trees - Categorization (
categorizer) categorizes text into one of 9 categories - Analyzer (
analyzer) runs the sentiment predictor and categorizer on all confessions - Results (
results) aggregates statistics
The following instructions should generalize to most Unix-like operating systems, but here were performed on Ubuntu Server 14.04 running on an Amazon EC2 c4.large instance.
The EC2 instance was launched with standard settings, with a security group making port 22 open for SSH. We use serapis as the hostname throughout the rest of this README, and suggest modifying /etc/hosts to make this work. The instance can then be SSH'ed into with
ssh -i ".ssh/serapis.pem" ubuntu@serapis
The following core packages must then be installed
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential git python-pip
Add the MongoDB apt repository
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu "$(lsb_release -sc)"/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list
Install the MongoDB server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mongodb-org
This will automatically start mongo. Finally install the Python bindings
sudo pip install pymongo