word2emoji

This simple module exposes one method to convert a single, english word to an emoji:

import word2emoji

print(word2emoji("beer"))

>>> 🍺

It works by way of a simple lookup table. You could use a pretrained model, but given that there are only a limited set of words in English it doesn't seem worth it. To build the look up table you need to run a number of steps:

Create the training set

The training.txt file contains a simple set to train on. test_to_training.py will convert it to training_prepared.jsonl which can be consumed by openai. Before you can get started, set your OPENAI_KEY:

export export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-urshouldgohere"

You can then train fine tune the model. I use davinci:

openai api fine_tunes.create -t training_prepared.jsonl -m davinci

This will take a few minutes (it does require the )

Creating the lookup table

Now you are ready to create the lookup. This is done using

python create_db.py

Update the name of the model there if you want to use your own and delete/update words.json - this contains a dictionary from word-stem to (word, emoji) pair.

Once you are happy with your new db, you can run:

python flatten_db.py