This dataset is collected and annotated for the SMILE project http://www.culturesmile.org. This collection of tweets mentioning 13 Twitter handles associated with British museums was gathered between May 2013 and June 2015. It was created for the purpose of classifying emotions, expressed on Twitter towards arts and cultural experiences in museums.
It contains 3,085 tweets, with 5 emotions namely anger, disgust, happiness, surprise and sadness. Please see our paper "SMILE: Twitter Emotion Classification using Domain Adaptation" for more details of the dataset.
License: The annotations are provided under a CC-BY license, while Twitter retains the ownership and rights of the content of the tweets.
Funding
SMILE is funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) www.ahrc.ac.uk