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by mkasu 1971 days ago
For people who are interested in this kind of idea, there is some research on estimating Word-Color associations.

A popular crowd-sourced dataset for this is [1] which contains average color association for 14,000 words. There is a demo available at [2].

There's also a recent work[3] trying to estimate such association using image data from Google, similar to the OP project, but a bit more sophisticated than just taking an average.

1: Colourful Language: Measuring Word-Colour Associations, Saif Mohammad, ACL 2011 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-0611/

2: http://www.lexichrome.com/

3: Estimating Color-Concept Associations from Image Statistics. Ragini Rathore et al., IEEE VIS InfoVis 2019. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.00220.pdf