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Interpreting the emotions in journal entries with NLP

1 pointsby pedrolinsabout 4 years ago

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PaulHouleabout 4 years ago
The &quot;27 emotions&quot; classification is the kind of thing that people come up when they want to do ML experiments forever and never face failure.<p>If the 27 emotions were uniformly distributed, you could do better than chance by guessing the right emotion 1 time in 20 (5% of the time!) but that would be completely useless from an engineering viewpoint.<p>If &quot;Happy&quot;&#x2F;&quot;Sad&quot; were not good enough for you, try one of these<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emotion_classification#Dimensional_models_of_emotion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emotion_classification#Dimensi...</a>