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Determining the polarity of emoticons for twitter sentiment analysis

I am trying doing a sentiment analysis on twitter data and want to take the emoticons into account. Say I have the unicode of an emoticon 😀 (in this case U+1F600). I would like to get some kind of positive, negative or neutral polarity score. I have done some research but have been unsuccessful in finding an existing lexicon that I could use. Basically I would like to use an existing lexicon if there is one available instead of going through all emoticons manually and assigning a score. Any suggestions?

I am using Python if it makes any difference.

Solution

  • A full lexicon containing emojis and their corresponding Unicode can be downloaded from http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html .