Development of a Sentiment Dictionary Based on Emoji in Texts

Student: Garkavaya Valeriya

Supervisor: Timofey Arkhangelskiy

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

The following paper deals with a development of a sentiment dictionary using emoji as markers of sentences’ connotations. Using data from social media and statistical methods of analysis, I intend to build a dictionary containing words, their connotations and examples of usage. I first provide an introduction. Then I discuss some existing methods of developing sentiment dictionaries and describe the plan of the study. In the end, I mention anticipated results and ideas for further research.

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