Farcast version 0.34 is out and now it supports sentiment analysis.

Sentiment analysis options are designated as (SA). There are plenty of combinations to try starting from how to encode text into numbers to weighting the reactions by the author popularity.

Current features:

• SA Embedding: The method of converting words and sentences to numbers while capturing the context. available options are word2vec, and featurize.
• SA Lexicon: the text corpora the classifier was trained on. it’s essential to capture the sentimental value of words and phrases. current options are movie reviews 2004 (movrev2004).
• SA Classifier: the algorithm used to classify the text into positive or negative. current options are NativeBayes and Support Vector Machines (SVM).