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aheissenberger/sentimentanalyser
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German Sentiment analysis library for PHP.

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Composer Library Template
=========================

[](#composer-library-template)

Simple german text sentiment analyser

Features
--------

[](#features)

- German sentiment word dictionary "SentiWS"
- PSR-4 autoloading compliant structure
- Unit-Testing with PHPUnit

Installation
============

[](#installation)

To get the latest version of Sentiment Analysis, simply add the following line to the require block of your composer.json file:

```
composer require aheissenberger/sentimentanalyser:dev-master

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Returns a positive number for positive sentiment association and negative number for negative sentiment association.

```
$var = new aheissenberger\sentimentanalyser\Sentiment;
echo $var->analyse('Es ist nicht so toll');
//=> (negative)

```

Create Dictionary from SentiWS
------------------------------

[](#create-dictionary-from-sentiws)

```
php -f ./helper/create_dict.php > ./src/dicts/de.php

```

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

This project is based on this javascript implementation:

German sentiment word dictionary "SentiWS"

R. Remus, U. Quasthoff & G. Heyer: SentiWS - a Publicly Available German-language Resource for Sentiment Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Language Ressources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 1168-1171, 2010

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity34

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity37

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 81.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

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