decodemoji
Languages and libraries
natural language generation
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and entertaining experiment
From 3 comments
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…
kixpanganiban on HNThe 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…
plusepsilon on HNI feel like (a good version of) this is the logical conclusion of progress in machine intelligence...
jacobtr on HN
Each decode gives a different interpretation
From 2 comments
Decoding the same set of emoji multiple times gives multiple translations!
gdw2 on HNThanks 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…
abhagi on HN
Objections
Outputs often don't make sense for the emoji used
From 3 comments
This is quite... unimpressive... None of the sentences really make sense, or at least form any "likely" sentence.
personjerry on HNI 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…
zodPod on HNThe 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…
plusepsilon on HN
Emoji meanings are ambiguous, so translation is hard
From 2 comments
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…
plusepsilon on HNWell, it's trying to make sense of something that most likely doesn't mean anything
colejohnson66 on HN
Some emoji render as boxes
From 1 comment
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…
zodPod on HN
Repeated emoji are interpreted as separate meanings
From 1 comment
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…
zodPod on HN
Requests
Use a subject-verb-object sentence structure
From 1 comment
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…
FreshlyMinted on HN
English to emoji translation
From 1 comment
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…
abhagi on HN
Questions
What emoji sentences has the maker tested and found sensible
From 1 comment
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…
FreshlyMinted on HN
Alternatives named
Dango
From 1 comment
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
plusepsilon on HN