A Sentiment and Emotion Annotated Dataset for Bitcoin Price Forecasting Based on Reddit Posts

Pavlo Seroyizhko, Zhanel Zhexenova, Muhammad Zohaib Shafiq, Fabio Merizzi, Andrea Galassi, Federico Ruggeri


Abstract
Cryptocurrencies have gained enormous momentum in finance and are nowadays commonly adopted as a medium of exchange for online payments. After recent events during which GameStop’s stocks were believed to be influenced by WallStreetBets subReddit, Reddit has become a very hot topic on the cryptocurrency market. The influence of public opinions on cryptocurrency price trends has inspired researchers on exploring solutions that integrate such information in crypto price change forecasting. A popular integration technique regards representing social media opinions via sentiment features. However, this research direction is still in its infancy, where a limited number of publicly available datasets with sentiment annotations exists. We propose a novel Bitcoin Reddit Sentiment Dataset, a ready-to-use dataset annotated with state-of-the-art sentiment and emotion recognition. The dataset contains pre-processed Reddit posts and comments about Bitcoin from several domain-related subReddits along with Bitcoin’s financial data. We evaluate several widely adopted neural architectures for crypto price change forecasting. Our results show controversial benefits of sentiment and emotion features advocating for more sophisticated social media integration techniques. We make our dataset publicly available for research.
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2022.finnlp-1.27
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hiroya Takamura, Hsin-Hsi Chen
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FinNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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203–210
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.finnlp-1.27
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.finnlp-1.27
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Pavlo Seroyizhko, Zhanel Zhexenova, Muhammad Zohaib Shafiq, Fabio Merizzi, Andrea Galassi, and Federico Ruggeri. 2022. A Sentiment and Emotion Annotated Dataset for Bitcoin Price Forecasting Based on Reddit Posts. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), pages 203–210, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Sentiment and Emotion Annotated Dataset for Bitcoin Price Forecasting Based on Reddit Posts (Seroyizhko et al., FinNLP 2022)
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