Code for the paper "Replication issues in syntax-based aspect extraction for opinion mining"

• Download and install the software needed

  1. Download and install Senna, http://ronan.collobert.com/senna/
  2. Download and install CoreNLP 3.6, http://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/history.html - Needs Java 8
  3. Download and install pyFIM http://www.borgelt.net/pyfim.html - Download fim.so and place it in python's dist-packages directory
  4. Run pip install scipy numpy python-Levenshtein

• Download data and create environment

  1. Make create_data_folder.sh executable: chmod +x create_data_folder.sh
  2. Run ./create_data_folder.sh path/to/data/folder (No trailing slash!)
  3. Modify ./enlp/settings.py accordingly

• Pre-process datasets

  1. python process_corpus.py

• Run (will take several hours depending on the number of cores available)

  1. python run.py path/to/store/output/json/files

Check process_corpus.py --help and run.py --help for more details on how run them.