Replication Data for: Validating a sentiment dictionary for German political language

The dataset provides a sentiment dictionary for German political language as well as the replication material for exemplary applications in speech, manifesto and media text corpora. A detailed guide to the resource and the different validation exercises is provided in: Rauh, Christian (2018) 'Validating a sentiment dictionary for German political language - a workbench note', Journal of Information Technology & Politics, forthcoming. Please make reference to this article when using the resources provided here. All analyses have been conducted in R 3.4.4 with additional packages specified at the beginning of the respective scripts.