'DeepMoji' Algorithm Reveals Your Feelings, Sarcasm Through Your Emoji Use

If you have a hard time identifying when someone is being sarcastic on Twitter, chances are there's an algorithm better at it than you are. The algorithm called DeepMoji, created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was originally trained to analyze tweets but can now detect the emotions conveyed through those tweets by examining emoji use. The goal was to create an algorithm that could better recognize racist tweets, reported MIT Technology Review. The developers working on it realized that there was frequently text that could only be fully understood by also understanding the sarcasm. Read: 'The Emoji Movie' Lost Its Zero Percent Rotten Tomatoes Score The researchers then used emoji in tweets as a way to label and categorize various emotions.