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The Multidimensional Lexicon of Emojis : A New Tool to Assess the Emotional Content of Emojis Godard, Rebecca; Holtzman, Susan

Abstract

Emerging studies suggest that emojis can make important contributions to the emotional content and meaning of digital messages. Yet researchers currently lack adequate tools to incorporate emojis into their analyses. To address this gap, we used over 3 million Twitter posts from a period of 17 months and emotion ratings provided by 2,230 human raters to develop and validate the Multidimensional Lexicon of Emojis (MLE). This new lexicon consists of 359 common emojis rated on ten emotion and sentiment dimensions. The MLE is an open-access tool that holds promise for those interested in conducting a comprehensive analysis of the emotional content of digital communication that incorporates emojis and goes beyond the dimensions of negativity and positivity.

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Title
The Multidimensional Lexicon of Emojis : A New Tool to Assess the Emotional Content of Emojis
Creator
Godard, Rebecca; Holtzman, Susan
Date Issued
2022-06-10
Description
Emerging studies suggest that emojis can make important contributions to the emotional content and meaning of digital messages. Yet researchers currently lack adequate tools to incorporate emojis into their analyses. To address this gap, we used over 3 million Twitter posts from a period of 17 months and emotion ratings provided by 2,230 human raters to develop and validate the Multidimensional Lexicon of Emojis (MLE). This new lexicon consists of 359 common emojis rated on ten emotion and sentiment dimensions. The MLE is an open-access tool that holds promise for those interested in conducting a comprehensive analysis of the emotional content of digital communication that incorporates emojis and goes beyond the dimensions of negativity and positivity.
Subject
Emojis; Emoticons; Sentiment analysis; Computer-mediated communication; Online; Emotion; Lexicon
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Notes
Open access funding provided by the UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research.
Date Available
2023-05-31
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0432760
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84738
Affiliation
Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan); Psychology, Department of (Okanagan)
Citation
Godard, Rebecca, and Susan Holtzman. "The Multidimensional Lexicon of Emojis: A New Tool to Assess the Emotional Content of Emojis." Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 2022, pp. 921388-921388.
Publisher DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2022.921388
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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