Capitalization Affecting Outcome

[Yangyi-Zhang]

Hi,

Thank you for the project. I saw different outputs when alternating the capitalization of input, for example:

text = "I love to visit historical places"
emotion = NRCLex(text)
print(emotion.top_emotions)

yields [('positive', 0.6666666666666666)], with raw emotion score {'joy': 1, 'positive': 2}.

while if I change text to "I Love to visit historical places", the top_emotions becomes [('positive', 1.0)].

How do we explain this? I understand this might not be an issue, but I am curious as a beginner in NLP.

[metalcorebear]

Thanks for bringing this up. I think we need to add a line of code to make all words within the examined corpus lowercase. That should overcome this issue, since the affect word list is all lowercase.