DepecheMood: a Lexicon for Emotion Analysis from Crowd-Annotated News
Table 2: Average percentages of votes.
['EMOTION AFRAID', 'Votes [ITALIC] μ 0.04', 'EMOTION DONT_CARE', 'Votes [ITALIC] μ 0.05']
happiness has a far higher percentage of votes (at least three times). There are several possible explanations, out of the scope of the present paper, for this bias: (i) it is due to cultural characteristics of the audience (ii) the bias is in the dataset itself, being formed mainly by ‘positive’ news; (iii) In any case, the predominance of happy mood has been found in other datasets, for instance In the following section we will discuss how we handled this problem.