Emoji Sentiment Scores of Writers using Odds Ratio and Fisher Exact Test

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method for calculating emoji sentiment scores using odds ratios and Fisher's exact test, simplifying statistical significance analysis especially for small sample sizes.

Contribution

It proposes a novel approach to emoji sentiment analysis based on odds ratios and provides a way to obtain exact p-values and confidence intervals.

Findings

Odds ratio simplifies sentiment analysis.

Provides exact p-values and confidence intervals.

Applicable to low sample size scenarios.

Abstract

The sentiment of a given emoji is traditionally calculated by averaging the ratings {-1, 0 or +1} given by various users to a given context where the emoji appears. However, using such formula complicates the statistical significance analysis particularly for low sample sizes. Here, we provide sentiment scores using odds and a sentiment mapping to a 4-icon scale. We show how odds ratio statistics leads to simpler sentiment analysis. Finally, we provide a list of sentiment scores with the often-missing exact p-values and CI for the most common emoji.