This is the first release of Salience 6.1.

Features

• Queries can now be used in an hsd file to assign sentiment/
• Entity Sentiment is now calculated with a chunk parsing based algorithm. The old algorithm can still be used with the Chained Entity Sentiment option. The new algorithm is more accurate, but produces more neutral results.
• Queries are now optionally insensitive to accents/diacritics.

Improvements

• Pattern Files now support a (=~s~'term') syntax to match all stems of a term.
• Added suppport for multiple classification models at once.
• Improved negation handling
• Improved stemming of irregular English verbs.
• Language detection now supports Russian, Arabic and Dutch
• Added Use Chainer option which improves runtime performance at a small accuracy cost.
• Added support for Intentions with no objects, and some additional types in the pattern restriction file.
• Sped up Demo startup time
• Autocategories updated to match the current category naming on Wikipedia
• Some general performance improvements

Bug fixes

• Fixed support of multibyte characters in queries
• Fixed some occasional crashes
• Fixed issue with changing query options (like max query length) after having already loaded the query file.
• Fixed abbreviations in language detection: ge => de, sp => es
• If you have any questions, please email [email protected]