DOESNOT WORK FOR LIWC2015

[myrainbowandsky]

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IndexError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 liwc = Liwc('/Users/lawrencexu/Documents/data/MisInfoText/LIWC2015.dic')

~/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/liwc/liwc.py in init(self, filepath)

~/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/liwc/liwc.py in _load_dict_file(self, filepath)

IndexError: list index out of range

[ma-ji]

An off-topic question: where you get the LIWC2015.dic file?

[mam9]

I think index out of range issues come with a different formatting of the new 2015 dictionary. Spaces seem to be the problem. Check out this issue from a similar package chbrown/liwc-python#3

I also would like to know where you got the dictionary file though? I bought LIWC but that only provides an executable.

[sara-02]

@mam9 As pointed out above the .dic is encrypted for the latest versions of LIWC2015.
But to obtain it, it is present inside the LIWC2015-app-1.6.0.jar.

[fris-t]

Check out this discussion: chbrown/liwc-python#5
The solution is there!