GoVader. Sentiment analysis tool written in GO (GoLang).

"VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is a lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool that is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media."

Original python implementation of VADER (https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment).

Getting started

Install:

go get github.com/drankou/go-vader/vader

Example of usage:

sia := vader.SentimentIntensityAnalyzer{}
err := sia.Init()
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}

score := sia.PolarityScores("VADER is smart, handsome, and funny!")
fmt.Println(score)
//output: map[pos:0.746 neg:0 neu:0.254 compound:0.8316]