my $pos_file = '/path/to/positive.txt'; my $neg_file = '/path/to/negative.txt'; my $categorizer = Algorithm::NaiveBayes->new; my $fh; open($fh,"<",$pos_file) or die "Could not open $pos_file: $!"; while (my $sentence = <$fh>) { chomp $sentence; my @words = split(' ',$sentence); my %positive; $positive{$_}++ for @words; $categorizer->add_instance( attributes => \%positive, label => 'positive'); } close($fh); open($fh,"<",$neg_file) or die "Could not open $neg_file: $!"; while (my $sentence = <$fh>) { chomp $sentence; my @words = split(' ',$sentence); my %negative; $negative{$_}++ for @words; $categorizer->add_instance( attributes => \%negative, label => 'negative'); } close($fh); $categorizer->train;