Named Entity Recognition 26.1
Named Entity Recognition User and Programming Guide

# S

The sentiment grammar files have lite versions. The lite versions are identical to the full versions in most respects, but they do not support components or user modification. They can process data up to twice as fast as the full versions, depending on language.

OpenText recommends that you use the lite versions except when you need to use components or modify the built-in dictionaries.

The lite grammars have the same name as the full version, with `_lite` after the language. For example, the file name of the Chinese sentiment grammar file is `sentiment_chi.ecr`, and the file name of the lite version is `sentiment_chi_lite.ecr`.

sentiment_ara.ecr and sentiment_ara_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/ara | An Arabic phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/ara | An Arabic phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/ara | A positive or negative phrase in Arabic. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_chi.ecr and sentiment_chi_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/chi | A Chinese phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/chi | A Chinese phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/chi | A positive or negative phrase in Chinese. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_cze.ecr and sentiment_cze_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/cze | A Czech phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/cze | A Czech phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/cze | A positive or negative phrase in Czech. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_dut.ecr and sentiment_dut_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/dut | A Dutch phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/dut | A Dutch phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_eng.ecr and sentiment_eng_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/eng | An English phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/eng | An English phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/eng | A positive or negative phrase in English. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_basic_eng.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/eng sentiment/negative/eng sentiment/eng | If recall with `sentiment_eng.ecr` is too low, and your documents are generally short comments, use `sentiment_basic_eng.ecr` to extract additional matches. This grammar contains carefully-selected lists of positive and negative terms that help determine the sentiment of a document in which `sentiment_eng.ecr` found no matches. TOPIC and SENTIMENT components are not supported. `sentiment_basic_eng.ecr` contains terms in title case, but research shows that for most data these impair recall, so these are given a lower score. OpenText recommends that you set `EntityMinScoreN` to `0.4` to filter out these terms unless you need them.

sentiment_fre.ecr and sentiment_fre_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/fre | A French phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/fre | A French phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/fre | A positive or negative phrase in French. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_ger.ecr and sentiment_get_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/ger | A German phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/ger | A German phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/ger | A positive or negative phrase in German. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_ita.ecr and sentiment_ita_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/ita | An Italian phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/ita | An Italian phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/ita | A positive or negative phrase in Italian. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_pol.ecr and sentiment_pol_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/pol | A Polish phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/pol | A Polish phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/pol | A positive or negative phrase in Polish. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_por.ecr and sentiment_por_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/por | A Portuguese phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/por | A Portuguese phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/por | A positive or negative phrase in Portuguese. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_rus.ecr and sentiment_rus_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/rus | A Russian phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/rus | A Russian phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/rus | A positive or negative phrase in Russian. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_spa.ecr and sentiment_spa_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/spa | A Spanish phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/spa | A Spanish phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/spa | A positive or negative phrase in Spanish. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

sentiment_tur.ecr and sentiment_tur_lite.ecr
Entity | Description
--- | ---
sentiment/positive/tur | A Turkish phrase that expresses a positive statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/negative/tur | A Turkish phrase that expresses a negative statement. Supports the TOPIC and SENTIMENT components.
sentiment/tur | A positive or negative phrase in Turkish. This entity adds a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE component wrapper to an empty string after the match. You can use this component to determine the sentiment of the phrase. Use this entity when faster performance is desirable. OpenText recommends that you configure Named Entity Recognition to allow all duplicates, and set `TangibleCharacters` to `:;@#`.

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