Twitter Emotion Recognition

Trained recurrent neural network (RNN) models for predicting emotions from English tweets. Our models work on characters hence we pass the whole tweet without any preprocessing as an input to the RNN. We are predicting three emotion classifications:

• Ekman's six basic emotions,
• Plutchik's eight basic emotions,
• Profile of Mood States (POMS) six mood states.

Files and Folders:

• demo.ipynb: script is showing how to use our models for predicting emotions or embedding tweets in Jupyter Notebook.
• demo.py: script is showing how to use our models for predicting emotions or embedding tweets in Python.
• emotion_prediction.py: helper scripts that defines EmotionPredictor class.
• models/: contains trained RNN models.

Example Usage

Binder

The easiest way to play around is to open .

Notice: Loading a model on Binder can take some time so please be patient!

In Jupyter Notebook

Execute it locally using Jupyter Notebook by opening the demo.ipynb file.

In Python

The following examples show how to predict Ekman's emotions from tweet's content. First let's import EmotionPredictor.

>>> from emotion_predictor import EmotionPredictor

Next we instantiate the model and define our tweets. In this example we will work with Ekman's emotions. Use plutchik to predict Plutchik's emotions or poms for Profile of Mood States. To use models in multilabel setting instead of multiclass provide ml as the setting argument.

>>> model = EmotionPredictor(classification='ekman', setting='mc')

>>> tweets = [
    "Watching the sopranos again from start to finish!",
    "Finding out i have to go to the  dentist tomorrow",
    "I want to go outside and chalk but I have no chalk",
    "I HATE PAPERS AH #AH #HATE",
    "My mom wasn't mad",
    "Do people have no Respect for themselves or you know others peoples homes",
]

We obtain model's predictions by calling predict_classes method:

>>> model.predict_classes(tweets)
                                                                       Tweet   Emotion
0                          Watching the sopranos again from start to finish!       Joy
1                          Finding out i have to go to the  dentist tomorrow      Fear
2                         I want to go outside and chalk but I have no chalk   Sadness
3                                                 I HATE PAPERS AH #AH #HATE     Anger
4                                                          My mom wasn't mad  Surprise
5  Do people have no Respect for themselves or you know others peoples homes   Disgust

To observe probabilities for each class use predict_probabilities method:

>>> model.predict_probabilities(tweets)
                                               Tweet     Anger   Disgust      Fear       Joy   Sadness  Surprise
0  Watching the sopranos again from start to finish!  0.000717  0.000244  0.003829  0.946539  0.005610  0.043061
1  Finding out i have to go to the  dentist tomorrow  0.007705  0.000039  0.783890  0.198629  0.008950  0.000787
2  I want to go outside and chalk but I have no c...  0.002772  0.000095  0.004137  0.025035  0.963712  0.004249
3                         I HATE PAPERS AH #AH #HATE  0.956343  0.006368  0.031387  0.000350  0.004375  0.001176
4                                  My mom wasn't mad  0.063969  0.004990  0.013971  0.079884  0.218708  0.618478
5  Do people have no Respect for themselves or yo...  0.070003  0.801428  0.067724  0.003646  0.038480  0.018718

If you would rather just use the final hidden state representation call embed:

>>> model.embed(tweets)
                                               Tweet      Dim1      Dim2    ...       Dim798    Dim799    Dim800
0  Watching the sopranos again from start to finish! -0.128762 -0.000000    ...    -0.260896 -0.009062 -0.110209
1  Finding out i have to go to the  dentist tomorrow -0.525602  0.407847    ...    -0.000088 -0.001489  0.142871
2  I want to go outside and chalk but I have no c... -0.057850  0.566420    ...    -0.091341 -0.003914 -0.037481
3                         I HATE PAPERS AH #AH #HATE  0.019670 -0.288512    ...     0.100234  0.013350 -0.014305
4                                  My mom wasn't mad -0.004135  0.657584    ...    -0.029319 -0.007455 -0.066208
5  Do people have no Respect for themselves or yo... -0.246179  0.069080    ...     0.029919  0.011467 -0.000520

[6 rows x 801 columns]

Citing:

If you use our models in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the following paper:

Colnerič, N., & Demšar, J. (2018). Emotion Recognition on Twitter: Comparative Study and Training a Unison Model. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, PP (99), 1. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2018.2807817