feel-it 1.0.0

A python package for sentiment analysis and emotion recognition in italian

FEEL-IT: Emotion and Sentiment Classification for the Italian Language

Abstract

Sentiment analysis is a common task to understand people’s reactions online. Still, we often need more nuanced information: is the post negative because the user is angry or because they are sad?

An abundance of approaches has been introduced for tackling both tasks. However, at least for Italian, they all treat only one of the tasks at a time. We introduce FEEL-IT, a novel benchmark corpus of Italian Twitter posts annotated with four basic emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness. By collapsing them, we can also do sentiment analysis. We evaluate our corpus on benchmark datasets for both emotion and sentiment classification, obtaining competitive results.

We release an open-source Python library, so researchers can use a model trained on FEEL-IT for inferring both sentiments and emotions from Italian text.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://feel-it.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Emotion Classification (fear, joy, sadness, anger) in Italian

• Sentiment Classification (positive, negative) in Italian

Installing

pip install -U feel-it

How To Use

The two classifiers are very easy to use.

from feel_it import EmotionClassifier, SentimentClassifier
emotion_classifier = EmotionClassifier()

emotion_classifier.predict(["sono molto felice", "ma che cazzo vuoi", "sono molto triste"])
>> ['joy', 'anger', 'sadness']

sentiment_classifier = SentimentClassifier()

sentiment_classifier.predict(["sono molto felice", "ma che cazzo vuoi", "sono molto triste"])
>> ['positive', 'negative', 'negative']

Citation

Please use the following bibtex entry if you use this model in your project:

@inproceedings{bianchi2021feel,
  title = {{"FEEL-IT: Emotion and Sentiment Classification for the Italian Language"}},
  author = "Bianchi, Federico and Nozza, Debora and Hovy, Dirk",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis",
  year = "2021",
  publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}

HuggingFace Models

You can find our HF Models here:

Name	Link
MilaNLProc/feel-it-italian-emotion	Emotion Model
MilaNLProc/feel-it-italian-sentiment	Sentiment Model

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.1.0 (2021-03-17)

• First release on PyPI.