Tweety at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Predicting Emojis using Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine

Daniel Kopev, Atanas Atanasov, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Momchil Hardalov, Ivan Koychev, Ivelina Nikolova, Galia Angelova


Abstract
We present the system built for SemEval-2018 Task 2 on Emoji Prediction. Although Twitter messages are very short we managed to design a wide variety of features: textual, semantic, sentiment, emotion-, and color-related ones. We investigated different methods of text preprocessing including replacing text emojis with respective tokens and splitting hashtags to capture more meaning. To represent text we used word n-grams and word embeddings. We experimented with a wide range of classifiers and our best results were achieved using a SVM-based classifier and a Hierarchical Attention Neural Network.
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S18-1080
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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SemEval | *SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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497–501
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https://aclanthology.org/S18-1080
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1080
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Daniel Kopev, Atanas Atanasov, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Momchil Hardalov, Ivan Koychev, Ivelina Nikolova, and Galia Angelova. 2018. Tweety at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Predicting Emojis using Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 497–501, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Tweety at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Predicting Emojis using Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine (Kopev et al., SemEval-*SEM 2018)
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