Multi-Class Emotion Classification for Interactive Presentations : A case study on how emotional sentiment analysis can help end users better convey intended emotion

Sammanfattning: Mentimeter is one of the fastest-growing startups in Sweden. They are an audience engagement platform that allows users to create interactive presentations and engage an audience. As online information spreads increasingly faster, methods of analyzing, understanding, and categorizing information are developing and improving rapidly. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the ability to break down input, for instance, text or audio, and process it using technologies such as computational linguistics and statistical learning, machine learning, and deep learning models. This thesis aimed to investigate if a tool that applies multi-class emotion classification of text could benefit end users when they are creating presentations using Mentimeter. A case study was conducted where a pre-trained BERT base model that had been fine-tuned and trained to the GoEmotions data set was applied as a tool to Mentimeter’s presentation software and then evaluated by end users. The results found that the tool was accurate; however, overall was not helpful for end users. For future research, improvements such as including emotions/tones that are more related to presentations would make the tool more applicable to presentations and would be helpful according to end users.