An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic

Emotion recognition is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that enables machines to comprehend the feelings conveyed in the text. The task involves detecting and recognizing various human emotions like anger, fear, joy, and sadness. The applications of emotion recognition are diverse...

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Main Author: Maha Jarallah Althobaiti
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Published: Elsevier 2023-12-01
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description Emotion recognition is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that enables machines to comprehend the feelings conveyed in the text. The task involves detecting and recognizing various human emotions like anger, fear, joy, and sadness. The applications of emotion recognition are diverse, including mental health diagnosis, student support, and the detection of online suspicious behavior. Despite the substantial amount of literature available on emotion recognition in various languages, Arabic emotion recognition has received relatively little attention, leading to a scarcity of emotion-annotated corpora. This article presents the ArPanEmo dataset, a novel dataset for fine-grained emotion recognition of online posts in Arabic. The dataset comprises 11,128 online posts manually labeled for ten emotion categories or neutral, with Fleiss' kappa of 0.71. It is unique in that it focuses on the Saudi dialect and addresses topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the first and largest of its kind. Python's packages were utilized to collect online posts related to the COVID-19 pandemic from three sources: Twitter, YouTube, and online newspaper comments between March 2020 and March 2022. Upon collection of the online posts, each one underwent a semi-automatic classification process using a lexicon of emotion-related terms to determine whether it belonged to the neutral or emotion category. Subsequently, manual labeling was conducted to further categorize the emotional data into fine-grained emotion categories. We anticipate that the ArPanEmo dataset will enrich Arabic NLP resources and help in the development of machine learning and deep learning tools to identify emotions in a given text. It will also contribute to developing systems that monitor online suspicious behaviors or mental health disorders. The final dataset is formatted in CSV, consisting of three columns: the number of the post, the post's text, and the corresponding emotion label. This format facilitates incorporating and utilizing the dataset in any machine learning research.
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spelling doaj.art-756c515480a648e79cfaba563bc2c5122023-12-02T07:00:18ZengElsevierData in Brief2352-34092023-12-0151109745An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemicMaha Jarallah Althobaiti0Corresponding author.; Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. BOX 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi ArabiaEmotion recognition is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that enables machines to comprehend the feelings conveyed in the text. The task involves detecting and recognizing various human emotions like anger, fear, joy, and sadness. The applications of emotion recognition are diverse, including mental health diagnosis, student support, and the detection of online suspicious behavior. Despite the substantial amount of literature available on emotion recognition in various languages, Arabic emotion recognition has received relatively little attention, leading to a scarcity of emotion-annotated corpora. This article presents the ArPanEmo dataset, a novel dataset for fine-grained emotion recognition of online posts in Arabic. The dataset comprises 11,128 online posts manually labeled for ten emotion categories or neutral, with Fleiss' kappa of 0.71. It is unique in that it focuses on the Saudi dialect and addresses topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the first and largest of its kind. Python's packages were utilized to collect online posts related to the COVID-19 pandemic from three sources: Twitter, YouTube, and online newspaper comments between March 2020 and March 2022. Upon collection of the online posts, each one underwent a semi-automatic classification process using a lexicon of emotion-related terms to determine whether it belonged to the neutral or emotion category. Subsequently, manual labeling was conducted to further categorize the emotional data into fine-grained emotion categories. We anticipate that the ArPanEmo dataset will enrich Arabic NLP resources and help in the development of machine learning and deep learning tools to identify emotions in a given text. It will also contribute to developing systems that monitor online suspicious behaviors or mental health disorders. The final dataset is formatted in CSV, consisting of three columns: the number of the post, the post's text, and the corresponding emotion label. This format facilitates incorporating and utilizing the dataset in any machine learning research.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923008144Natural language processingMachine/deep learningArabic emotion recognitionOnline posts datasetCOVID-19 pandemic
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An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic
Data in Brief
Natural language processing
Machine/deep learning
Arabic emotion recognition
Online posts dataset
COVID-19 pandemic
title An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic
title_full An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic
title_short An open-source dataset for arabic fine-grained emotion recognition of online content amid COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort open source dataset for arabic fine grained emotion recognition of online content amid covid 19 pandemic
topic Natural language processing
Machine/deep learning
Arabic emotion recognition
Online posts dataset
COVID-19 pandemic
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923008144
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