Deepmoji: Human emotion from text
Can we improve the ability of machines to understand human emotions by using the information conveyed in emojis? We use Deep Learning techniques, with a novel pre-training approach using emojis, to outperform many state-of-the-art techniques in sentiment, emotion and sarcasm detection.
Interactive: DeepMoji web site
Scientific writings
B. Felbo, A. Mislove, A. Søgaard, I. Rahwan, S. Lehmann (2017) Using millions of emoji occurrences to learn any-domain representations for detecting sentiment, emotion and sarcasm. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Selected Media: MIT Technology Review, The Telegraph, BBC, Newsweek, The Register, Digital Trends