CAO System Emoticon Parts Dataset with Emotion Labels

The presented dataset has been used as a basis for CAO - a system for analysis of emoticons in Japanese online communication, developed by Ptaszynski et al. (2010). Emoticons are strings of symbols widely used in text-based online communication to convey user emotions. The database contains:1) a predetermined raw emoticon database containing over ten thousand emoticon samples extracted from the Web, 2) emoticon parts automatically divided from raw emoticons into semantic areas representing “mouths” or “eyes”. Both raw emoticons, as well as the emoticon areas, are automatically annotated with emotions according to their co-occurrence in the database.