Both magnitude and score are important in analyzeSentiment API

[CloudApiStudy]

Hi,

I come from a research team which works on bugs in real-world applications.

I want to make a report about a potential functionality improvement in your project.

In file (sentiment_analyzer.py), you call analyzeSentiment API to judge the sentiment of text/document. However, magnitude is also an important metric: it reveals how strong the emotion is, while score reveals whether the emotion is positive/negative. When the magnitude is small, the emotion should be neutral even if |score| > 0.2. More details could be found in the official document.

Perhaps someone might be able to confirm if these seem reasonable. Also, if so, the fix seems like it would be pretty straightforward, and I’m happy to create a pull request if that will be helpful.

If you are not offended by it, we may include your response as a percentage number (e.g. xx% of applications faces xx problem, and xx% of them confirms it) in our research paper.

Thanks.