Category Component 26.3
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# CategorySetupSentimentAnalysisCats

Allows you to set up categories to use to perform sentiment analysis. When the action is complete, you can perform sentiment analysis without having to perform other actions.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9020/Action=CategorySetupSentimentAnalysisCats&PositiveCatName=positiveSentiment&NeutralCatName=neutralSentiment&NegativeCatName=negativeSentiment&PositiveCatTraining=agree happy like&NeutralCatTraining=unsure OK alright&NegativeCatTraining=disagree unhappy hate&Parent=1234567890

This action sets up, trains, and builds three categories as children of the parent category `1234567890`.

NOTE: The Parent category named in `CategorySetupSentimentAnalysisCats` must already exist, and cannot already have any child categories.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
NegativeCatName | The name of the negative sentiment category.
NeutralCatName | The name of the neutral sentiment category.
Parent | The parent category to add the sentiment categories to.
PositiveCatName | The name of the positive sentiment category.

You must set at least one of the following parameters for each value of Sentiment (Positive, Negative, and Neutral). See Comments.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
<Sentiment>CatTraining | The text to use to train the Sentiment category .
<Sentiment>DocRef | A list of document references to use to train the Sentiment category.
<Sentiment>StateID | A state token that contains the documents to use to train the Sentiment category.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

## Comments

You must provide a source of training for each of the sentiment categories created.

You must specify at least one of the following parameters for the positive sentiment:

- `PositiveCatTraining`
- `PositiveCatDocRef`
- `PositiveCatStateID`

You must specify at least one of the following parameters for the neutral sentiment:

- `NeutralCatTraining`
- `NeutralCatDocRef`
- `NeutralCatStateID`

You must specify at least one of the following parameters for the negative sentiment:

- `NegativeCatTraining`
- `NegativeCatDocRef`
- `NegativeCatStateID`

If one or more categories do not have a source of training, the Category component returns an error.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Category Component 26.3

Topic Title: CategorySetupSentimentAnalysisCats