Publications by Valentina Sintsova

Modeling the Impact of Modifiers on Emotional Statements

Pearl Pu Faltings, Valentina Sintsova, Margarita Bolívar Jiménez

Humans use a variety of modifiers to enrich communications with one another. While this is a deliberate subtlety in our language, the presence of modifiers can cause problems for emotion analysis by machines. Our research objective is to understand and com ...

SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND AG2018

Dystemo: Distant Supervision Method for Multi-Category Emotion Recognition in Tweets

Pearl Pu Faltings, Valentina Sintsova

Emotion recognition in text has become an important research objective. It involves building classifiers capable of detecting human emotions for a specific application, for example, analyzing reactions to product launches, monitoring emotions at sports eve ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Advancing Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition in Short Text

Valentina Sintsova

Advanced emotion recognition in text is essential for developing intelligent affective applications, which can recognize, react upon, and analyze users' emotions. Our particular motivation for solving this problem lies in large-scale analysis of social med ...

EPFL2016

Semi-Supervised Method for Multi-Category Emotion Recognition in Tweets

Pearl Pu Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Valentina Sintsova

Each tweet is limited to 140 characters. This constraint surprisingly makes Twitter a more spontaneous platform to express our emotions. Detecting emotions and correctly classifying them automatically is an increasingly important task if we want to underst ...

2014