I was wondering if anybody knew where I could obtain dictionaries of positive and negative words. I\'m looking into sentiment analysis and this is a crucial part of it.
The Sentiment Lexicon, at the University of Pittsburgh might be what you are after. It's a lexicon of about 8,000 words with positive/neutral/negative sentiment. It's described in more detail in this paper and released under the GPL.
Professor Bing Liu provide an English Lexicon of about 6800 word, you can download form this link: Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Spam Detection
The Harvard-IV dictionary directory http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/homecat.htm has at least two sets of ready-to-use dictionaries for positive/negative orientation.