EVOKE: Emotion Vocabulary Of Korean and English

Yoonwon Jung, Hagyeong Shin, Benjamin Bergen


Abstract
This paper introduces EVOKE (Emotion Vocabulary of Korean and English), a Korean-English parallel dataset of emotion words. The dataset offers comprehensive coverage of emotion words in each language, in addition to many-to-many translations between words in the two languages and identification of language-specific emotion words. The dataset contains 1,426 Korean words and 1,397 English words, and we systematically annotate 819 Korean and 924 English adjectives and verbs. We also annotate multiple meanings of each word and their relationships, identifying polysemous emotion words and emotion-related metaphors. The dataset is, to our knowledge, the most systematic and theory-agnostic dataset of emotion words in both Korean and English to date. It can serve as a practical tool for emotion science, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing, allowing researchers to adopt different views on the resource reflecting their needs and theoretical perspectives. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/yoonwonj/EVOKE.
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2026.cas-1.12
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Proceedings of Computational Affective Science (CAS) @ LREC 2026
Month:
May
Year:
2026
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Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Christopher Bagdon, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Kristen A. Lindquist, Lyle Ungar, Roman Klinger, Saif M. Mohammad
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CAS | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
136–150
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-cas-12
DOI:
10.63317/53mmeg8jphzt
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Yoonwon Jung, Hagyeong Shin, and Benjamin Bergen. 2026. EVOKE: Emotion Vocabulary Of Korean and English. In Proceedings of Computational Affective Science (CAS) @ LREC 2026, pages 136–150, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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EVOKE: Emotion Vocabulary Of Korean and English (Jung et al., CAS 2026)
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