Emotion Detection

XLM-EMO: Multilingual Emotion Prediction in Social Media Text

Detecting emotion in text allows social and computational scientists to study how people behave and react to online events. However, developing these tools for different languages requires data that is not always available. This paper collects the …

FEEL-IT: Emotion and Sentiment Classification for the Italian Language

Sentiment analysis is a common task to understand people's reactions online. Still, we often need more nuanced information: is the post negative because the user is angry or because they are sad? An abundance of approaches has been introduced for …

MilaNLP @ WASSA: Does BERT Feel Sad When You Cry?

The paper describes the MilaNLP team’s submission (Bocconi University, Milan) in the WASSA 2021 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification. We focus on Track 2 - Emotion Classification - which consists of predicting the emotion of …

Universal Joy A Data Set and Results for Classifying Emotions Across Languages

While emotions are universal aspects of human psychology, they are expressed differently across different languages and cultures. We introduce a new data set of over 530k anonymized public Facebook posts across 18 languages, labeled with five …