I often wish for the ability to think of something like sending an email or WhatsApp message and it actually sends, especially as my time in front of devices has diminished considerably. However with advancements like Elon Musk’s first Neuralink Telepathy product, that future does not seem that far away now. Thus it becomes essential […]
In April 2014, my colleagues and I published an article in the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing journal titled “Are They Different? Affect, Feeling, Emotion, Sentiment, and Opinion Detection in Text.” In writing the paper, I didn’t know that it was going to end up being one of one my most read and cited paper. The paper made […]
One of my areas of interest and expertise is emotion detection. In this post, I look at the existing theories of emotion, in particular the assumptions and limitations they set on the detection of emotion in text. In the literature on emotion detection, no unified or generally accepted theory of emotion exists. However, there are […]
With all the hype around chatbots, I was glad to get a chance to actually get some experience in developing one. A few weeks ago, within our Immerstive Automation project, we had Nick Diakopoulos, an Associate Professor in computational and data journalism, lead a workshop on creating chatbots. I was very excited to get to build […]
The words we use and our writing styles can reveal information about our preferences, thoughts, emotions and intentions. Using this information, I developed machine learning models that can detect antisocial behaviors, such as hate speech and indications of violence, from texts, as part of my recently defended PhD dissertation, titled “Leveraging emotion and word based features for […]