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Show HN: Natural Language Generation, Emoji-To-English Translator

49 points by abhagi 10y ago

personjerry 10y ago
This is quite... unimpressive... None of the sentences really make sense, or at least form any "likely" sentence.
- colejohnson66 10y ago
  Well, it's trying to make sense of something that most likely doesn't mean anything
jacobtr 10y ago
I feel like (a good version of) this is the logical conclusion of progress in machine intelligence...
plusepsilon 10y ago
The meaning of emojis are generally pretty ambiguous so not all sentences will make sense because the emojis themselves don't make sense. There's definitely some syntactic constraints (picks one emoji for the predicate?) when decoding. In any case, I think it's fun. -> The loud and alarming infant drives a police car. -> Santa takes a dump on Santa. -> The ogre feeds cheese to the evil creature. -> The prawns become gluten-free. 🇯🇵🇰🇷 -> Japan infuriates South Korea. *edit: darn, emojis don't get parsed well here.
FreshlyMinted 10y ago
Love the idea! I am disagreeing with the way that you make ownership happen in some kind of RTL fashion. I think that you could get more milage out of a SUBJECT -> VERB -> OBJECT skeleton. I'm curious what emoji sentences you tested yourself and thought that the translator made sense based on what you intended
gdw2 10y ago
Decoding the same set of emoji multiple times gives multiple translations!
thuuuomas 10y ago
For fun, try decoding sequences of the "police" emoji of varying length. :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...
viycyjcutc 10y ago
zodPod 10y ago
I am not sure what the purpose of this is. My experience with emojis has been people will hit a bunch of them to emphasize something. When seeing a bunch of the same emoji next to each other your application seems to try to interpret them all as having separate meanings. Also, just simple ones don't make sense. Like a robot next to a heart eyes guy. One would assume it would be like I love robots or something but instead I got "The robot is infatuated" switching it around to be the heart eyes guy and then a robot returns "The lovestruck robot passes time". Neither make sense for what I'd use the emoji for. Lastly, half of the time, the inserted emoji shows up as just a box instead of the actual character. It's strange that it seems to be intermittent. I'm with @personjerry. This is kind of unimpressive... Also, :tongue: :mouth: returns "The mouth becomes licking." I don't even know what that would mean. I would use the 2 to represent that I'm licking my lips.
- wodenokoto 10y ago
  I don't think this is so much a translator as a story writer. At least that's the only way the decodings made sense to me.
jszymborski 10y ago
very happy with the result of my first test: https://imgur.com/VbJddGr https://imgur.com/VbJddGr edit: https
kixpanganiban 10y ago
A novel, and somewhat entertaining experiment. Though probably no practical use. It explains this: [ok hand][fries][burger][silverware] As: "The OK gesture shares fries with the silver cheeseburger." Made my day though.
abhagi 10y ago
Thanks for trying and leaving feedback. The purpose of this was to be able to generate grammatically correct and humorous interpretations out of any number and combination of emojis. And yup, you can hit the decode button as many times as you want, you'll get a different interpretation each time. English -> Emoji coming soon
- plusepsilon 10y ago
  It's really interesting how English -> Emoji doesn't get criticized as much as Emoji -> English. Compare to Dango: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870283

49 points by abhagi 10y ago

personjerry 10y ago

This is quite... unimpressive... None of the sentences really make sense, or at least form any "likely" sentence.

colejohnson66 10y ago
Well, it's trying to make sense of something that most likely doesn't mean anything

jacobtr 10y ago

I feel like (a good version of) this is the logical conclusion of progress in machine intelligence...

plusepsilon 10y ago

The meaning of emojis are generally pretty ambiguous so not all sentences will make sense because the emojis themselves don't make sense. There's definitely some syntactic constraints (picks one emoji for the predicate?) when decoding. In any case, I think it's fun. -> The loud and alarming infant drives a police car. -> Santa takes a dump on Santa. -> The ogre feeds cheese to the evil creature. -> The prawns become gluten-free. 🇯🇵🇰🇷 -> Japan infuriates South Korea. *edit: darn, emojis don't get parsed well here.

FreshlyMinted 10y ago

Love the idea! I am disagreeing with the way that you make ownership happen in some kind of RTL fashion. I think that you could get more milage out of a SUBJECT -> VERB -> OBJECT skeleton. I'm curious what emoji sentences you tested yourself and thought that the translator made sense based on what you intended

gdw2 10y ago

Decoding the same set of emoji multiple times gives multiple translations!

thuuuomas 10y ago

For fun, try decoding sequences of the "police" emoji of varying length. :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...

viycyjcutc 10y ago

zodPod 10y ago

I am not sure what the purpose of this is. My experience with emojis has been people will hit a bunch of them to emphasize something. When seeing a bunch of the same emoji next to each other your application seems to try to interpret them all as having separate meanings. Also, just simple ones don't make sense. Like a robot next to a heart eyes guy. One would assume it would be like I love robots or something but instead I got "The robot is infatuated" switching it around to be the heart eyes guy and then a robot returns "The lovestruck robot passes time". Neither make sense for what I'd use the emoji for. Lastly, half of the time, the inserted emoji shows up as just a box instead of the actual character. It's strange that it seems to be intermittent. I'm with @personjerry. This is kind of unimpressive... Also, :tongue: :mouth: returns "The mouth becomes licking." I don't even know what that would mean. I would use the 2 to represent that I'm licking my lips.

wodenokoto 10y ago
I don't think this is so much a translator as a story writer. At least that's the only way the decodings made sense to me.

jszymborski 10y ago

very happy with the result of my first test: https://imgur.com/VbJddGr https://imgur.com/VbJddGr edit: https

kixpanganiban 10y ago

A novel, and somewhat entertaining experiment. Though probably no practical use. It explains this: [ok hand][fries][burger][silverware] As: "The OK gesture shares fries with the silver cheeseburger." Made my day though.

abhagi 10y ago

Thanks for trying and leaving feedback. The purpose of this was to be able to generate grammatically correct and humorous interpretations out of any number and combination of emojis. And yup, you can hit the decode button as many times as you want, you'll get a different interpretation each time. English -> Emoji coming soon

plusepsilon 10y ago
It's really interesting how English -> Emoji doesn't get criticized as much as Emoji -> English. Compare to Dango: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870283