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i am working on NLP using python and nltk.

I was wondering whether is there any dataset which have bags of words which shows keywords relating to emotions such as happy, joy, anger, sadness and etc

from what i dug up in the nltk corpus, i see there are some sentiment analysis corpus which contain positive and negative review which doesn't exactly related to keywords showing emotions.

Is there anyway which i could build my own dictionary containing words which shows emotion for this purpose? is so, how do i do it and is there any collection of such words?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

I'm not aware of any dataset that associates sentiments to keywords, but you can easily built one starting from a generic sentiment analysis dataset.

1) Clean the datasets from the stopwords and all the terms that you don't want to associate to a sentiment.

2)Compute the count of each words in the two sentiment classes and normalize it. In this way you will associate a probability to each word to belong to a class. Let's suppose that you have 300 times the word "love" appearing in the positive sentences and the same word appearing 150 times in the negative sentences. Normalizing you have that the word "love" belongs with a probability of 66% (300/(150+300)) to the positive class and 33% to the negative one.

3) In order to make the dictionary more robust to the borderline terms you can set a threshold to consider neutral all the words with the max probability lower than the threshold.

This is an easy approach to build the dictionary that you are looking for. You could use more sophisticated approach as Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency.