SentiNews

The news articles contain political, business, economic and financial content from the Slovenian news portals 24ur, Dnevnik, Finance, Rtvslo, and Žurnal24. The texts were annotated using the five-level Lickert scale (1 – very negative, 2 – negative, 3 – neutral, 4 – positive, and 5 – very positive) on three levels of granularity, i.e. on the document, paragraph, and sentence level.

The final sentiment is determined using the following criterion: negative (if average of scores ≤ 2.4); neutral (if average of scores is between 2.4 and 3.6); positive (average of annotated scores ≥ 3.6).