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5 papers

cs.CL2026

From Trial by Fire To Sleep Like a Baby: A Lexicon of Anxiety Associations for 20k English Multiword Expressions

Saif M. Mohammad

Anxiety is the unease about a possible future negative outcome. In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding how anxiety relates to our health, well-being, bod…

cs.CL2026

When are We Worried? Temporal Trends of Anxiety and What They Reveal about Us

Saif M. Mohammad

In this short paper, we make use of a recently created lexicon of word-anxiety associations to analyze large amounts of US and Canadian social media data (tweets) to explore *when*…

cs.CL2025

Breaking Bad: Norms for Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for over 10k English Multiword Expressions

Saif M. Mohammad

Factor analysis studies have shown that the primary dimensions of word meaning are Valence (V), Arousal (A), and Dominance (D). Existing lexicons such as the NRC VAD Lexicon, publi…

cs.CL2025

Words of Warmth: Trust and Sociability Norms for over 26k English Words

Saif M. Mohammad

Social psychologists have shown that Warmth (W) and Competence (C) are the primary dimensions along which we assess other people and groups. These dimensions impact various aspects…

cs.CL2025

NRC VAD Lexicon v2: Norms for Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for over 55k English Terms

Saif M. Mohammad

Factor analysis studies have shown that the primary dimensions of word meaning are Valence (V), Arousal (A), and Dominance (D) (also referred to in social cognition research as Com…