Text Emotion Recognition NLP Tools

Tools and models for detecting, classifying, and analyzing emotions expressed in text data. Includes datasets, frameworks, and applications for emotion detection from written content. Does NOT include sentiment analysis (positive/negative/neutral), speech emotion recognition, multimodal emotion detection, or dialogue-specific emotion models.

There are 84 text emotion recognition tools tracked. 2 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is chatopera/efaqa-corpus-zh at 68/100 with 742 stars and 130 monthly downloads. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	chatopera/efaqa-corpus-zh ❤️Emotional First Aid Dataset, 心理咨询问答、聊天机器人语料库	68	Established	742	Python
2	ikegami-yukino/pymlask Emotion analyzer for Japanese text	52	Established	116	Python
3	declare-lab/conv-emotion This repo contains implementation of different architectures for emotion...	44	Emerging	1,502	Python
4	sarnthil/unify-emotion-datasets A Survey and Experiments on Annotated Corpora for Emotion Classification in Text	41	Emerging	234	Python
5	chatopera/efaqa-corpus-raw Emotional First Aid Raw Dataset, 心理咨询问答原始语料库	40	Emerging	21	Python
6	kanchitank/Text-Emotion-Analysis Automate detection of different emotions from paragraphs and predict overall emotion.	36	Emerging	60	Jupyter Notebook
7	hasanhuz/SpanEmo SpanEmo	36	Emerging	62	Python
8	tlkh/text-emotion-classification Archived - not answering issues	34	Emerging	200	Jupyter Notebook
9	PoorvaRane/Emotion-Detector A python code to detect emotions from text	31	Emerging	62	Jupyter Notebook
10	zerohd4869/DialogueCRN Source code for ACL-IJCNLP 2021 paper "DialogueCRN: Contextual Reasoning...	30	Emerging	62	Python
11	meisaputri21/Indonesian-Twitter-Emotion-Dataset Indonesian twitter dataset for emotion classification task	30	Emerging	79	—
12	declare-lab/awesome-emotion-recognition-in-conversations A comprehensive reading list for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	30	Emerging	276	—
13	Ztrimus/speech-emotion-recognition Predicting various emotion in human speech signal by detecting different...	29	Experimental	48	Jupyter Notebook
14	suzana-ilic/NLP_affective_computing NLP Affective Computing - text-based emotion recognition with Deep Learning and LLMs	29	Experimental	16	Jupyter Notebook
15	atharva-naik/VADEC Codes and Datasets for our SIGIR 2021 Paper: "Understanding the Role of...	29	Experimental	12	Jupyter Notebook
16	soulteary/docker-emotion Out-of-the-box text emotion / sentiment analysis application, supports...	29	Experimental	10	JavaScript
17	vineetjohn/wassa-emoint-2017 WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity (EmoInt)	28	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
18	sarnthil/crowd-enVent-modeling DImensional Modeling of Emotions in Text with Appraisal Theories	27	Experimental	8	Python
19	dvamossy/EmTract Package for extracting emotions from social media text. Tailored for financial data.	26	Experimental	21	Jupyter Notebook
20	TechyCSR/Text-Based-Emotion-Detector The Text-Based-Emotion-Detector Web App is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing...	26	Experimental	4	HTML
21	dimi-fn/Emotion-Recognition-in-Movie-Abstracts Original dissertation title: "Extract Emotional Tags from Movie Synopses"....	26	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
22	wxjiao/HiGRUs Implementation of the paper "Hierarchical GRU for Utterance-level Emotion...	26	Experimental	69	Python
23	erayyildiz/AffectInTweets Finding the intensity of emotions in tweets (SemEval 2018 Task 1 Participant)	25	Experimental	4	JavaScript
24	sismetanin/emosense-semeval2019-task3-emocontext Deep-learning system presented in "EmoSence at SemEval-2019 Task 3:...	25	Experimental	28	Jupyter Notebook
25	Aaditya-Singh/E2E-ECPE Code for the WASSA 2021 paper (oral) "An End-to-End Network for...	24	Experimental	24	Python
26	gguibon/metalearning-emotion-datasource In this paper, we place ourselves in a classification scenario in which the...	24	Experimental	3	Python
27	wenliangdai/Modality-Transferable-MER Modality-Transferable-MER, multimodal emotion recognition model with...	23	Experimental	66	Python
28	Ankit152/Emotions-Detection-NLP Emotions dataset for NLP classification tasks.	23	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
29	EmotionDetection/6H-AP_emotion_labelled_tweets The 6H-AP emotion-labelled tweets dataset (n=1,478,116; any position of...	22	Experimental	1	—
30	armintabari/Emotion-Detection-RNN A bidirectional GRU model to detect discrete emotions in tweets.	22	Experimental	22	Python
31	stefani-gifta/cross-platform-dataset-2025 This dataset contains 1,659 comments collected from Twitter, Instagram, and...	22	Experimental	—	—
32	JayParekh-MechAI/Multimodal-Emotion-Detection-Research A multimodal deep learning framework integrating MobileNet and BiLSTM...	22	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
33	nur-ag/emotion-classification Repository for "Uncovering the Limits of Text-based Emotion Detection", —...	22	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
34	Pranav-Goel/Neural_Emotion_Intensity_Prediction The code for our proposed neural models which give state-of-the-art...	22	Experimental	20	Jupyter Notebook
35	ekohrt/emoticon_kaomoji_dataset Dataset of 62,000 text emoticons and kaomojis with labels.	22	Experimental	42	Jupyter Notebook
36	mengzhu0308/Transformer-Text-Emotion-Classification 基于Transformer的文本情感分类	22	Experimental	7	Python
37	HaebinShin/stanford-sentiment-dataset Refined dataset for Stanford Sentiment Treebank used in Yoon Kim (2014).	21	Experimental	12	—
38	roskzhu/Empa Increasing empathy leveraging computer vision to translate facial...	21	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
39	abhinav-bohra/Emotional-Analysis-Multitasking-Framework My implementation of the research paper - All-in-One: Emotion, Sentiment and...	20	Experimental	17	Jupyter Notebook
40	skn1998/Emotions-Classification-in-Hindi-Text Codes for Emotions Classification in Hindi Text	20	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
41	faizan170/emotion-classification-from-text Text emotion classification using keras(Tensorflow)	20	Experimental	6	Python
42	bagustris/isst_2019 Repository for text emotion recognition submitted to ISST 2019	18	Experimental	4	Python
43	rejonehridoy/Emotion_Detection_from_Text_using_Machine_Learning Text Classification using Machine Learning	18	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
44	Neo-Zenith/text-message-sentiment-analyzer A mini-project on emotion classification using NLP for the course SC1015:...	18	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
45	Anyesh/emotion-recognition AI-based application for emotion detection and recognition from text data	18	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
46	thinhuos0913/tweet-emotion-recognition Build a recurrent neural network and train it on a tweet emotion dataset to...	17	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
47	Valendrew/ekman-emotion-detection Recurrent Neural Network for Emotion Detection, trained on the Ekman's six...	17	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
48	SkSaadAli/Twizzer_Twitter_Emotion_analyzer This application provides a G.U.I. that employs a deep learning RNN LSTM...	15	Experimental	2	QML
49	ziss11/emotion-classification Dicoding Pengembangan Machine Learning Submission 1	15	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
50	secondlevel/NYCU-110-2-Natural-Language-Processing It is the nlp task to classify empathetic dialogues datasets using RoBERTa,...	15	Experimental	6	Python
51	Arwaalmrzoqi/ELQV The ELQV dataset contains a collection of the Quran verses annotated...	15	Experimental	—	—
52	A-Koufakou/EmoDetect-Unify A Unifying Framework of Recent Emotion-Annotated Text Corpora	15	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
53	VikasKumar281/Empathy-Engine Empathy Engine is an AI voice synthesis system that detects emotions in text...	15	Experimental	1	HTML
54	disha312/AI-Emotion-Recognition AI-based emotion recognition system that detects emotions from text using...	14	Experimental	—	Python
55	caspinprince/emotion-detection ML model to detect the emotion of a text message. Deployed as an API.	14	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
56	Sagarnandeshwar/Lyrics_Emotion_Recognition Natural Language Processing (COMP 550) Course project	14	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
57	Shengwei-Peng/Chinese-Multimodal-Sentiment-Analysis Chinese-Multimodal-Sentiment-Analysis is an innovative project that...	14	Experimental	10	Python
58	Melckykaisha/Emotion_classifier_CNN CNN-based deep learning model for classifying emotions from text into 6...	14	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
59	kshitijbhandari/Speech-Detection----Spoken-Digit Spoken digit recognition (0–9) using LSTM networks. Compares raw waveforms...	14	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
60	VietHoang1512/ICDAR-EmoRecCom Multimodal Emotion Recognition on Comics scenes (ICDAR 2021)	14	Experimental	9	Python
61	bshmueli/EmotionX-2019 Data for the SocialNLP EmotionX 2019 Challenge	14	Experimental	3	—
62	yanpengt06/DialogueEIN a reproduction on DialogueEIN: Emotion Interaction Network for Dialogue...	13	Experimental	7	Python
63	nordszamora/Emotion-Expression The Machine learning project where user express there emotion and classify...	13	Experimental	6	Python
64	ljubogdan/tweet-emotion-classifier A TensorFlow-powered Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) for multi-class emotion...	12	Experimental	1	Python
65	daspartho/text-emotion emotion analysis on text	12	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
66	mrfree96/emotionAI Emotion Analysis from Video: A Multi-Model Machine Learning Approach	12	Experimental	4	Python
67	amith-ananthram/feelingblue FeelingBlue: A Corpus for Understanding the Emotional Connotation of Color...	12	Experimental	13	Python
68	Skyler-Luo/Empathetic-Dialogue-Generation [RAICOM2025 🏆国二等奖] 基于 Transformer...	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
69	czhao-dev/AI-Emotion-Detector-Webapp This project is to develop an AI-based web application capable of detecting...	12	Experimental	1	Python
70	Afhrodite/AI-Based-Web-Application-Development-and-Deployment AI-powered emotion detection web app using IBM Watson Natural Language...	12	Experimental	1	Python
71	feliciasalim/HiddenMood-ML This project is a FastAPI backend service that uses a BiLSTM model to...	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
72	madhurima99/Emotion-Detection-from-text Deep learning algorithm to detect different types of emotions contained in a...	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
73	mrdaliselmi/Tweet-Emotion-Recognition This is my introduction to NLP with TensorFlow. I hope that through this...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
74	CodeByOS/Emotion-Detection-AI AI-powered emotion detection from text using Machine Learning and Flask....	11	Experimental	—	HTML
75	RoozbehBandpey/ELTEA17 Entity-Level Tweets Emotion Analysis Dataset	11	Experimental	2	Python
76	christosojan/MSA-in-Indian-Languages Implementation of Dense Fusion Network with Multimodal Residual (DFMR) for...	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
77	l1ght14/emotion_detector Python/Streamlit app for multimodal emotion (text, audio, video) & sentiment...	11	Experimental	—	Python
78	zubiiabbasi/speech-emotion-gradcam Speech emotion recognition using mel-spectrograms and CNN with Grad-CAM...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
79	MdJafirAshraf/Emotion-Recognition-in-Text Emotion recognition is part of sentiment analysis. We achieve emotion...	11	Experimental	2	CSS
80	jvario/emotion-analysis-chatbot The project aims to enhance the user experience of a chatbot by...	11	Experimental	—	Python
81	muame-amr/EmoTwit Real-time Malay Tweet Sentiment Analysis Web Application using RNN with DL4J	10	Experimental	1	HTML
82	rhiosutoyo/emotion-recognition-model Indonesian Twitter Emotion Recognition using Feature Engineering	10	Experimental	1	—
83	cjrh/empatico Emotion detection microservice based on natural language inference	10	Experimental	1	Python
84	steveee27/Emotion-Text-Classification-in-Social-Media-Using-Multiple-Text-Representation-and-Deep-RNN This project explores emotion classification in social media texts using...	10	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook

Comparisons in this category

efaqa-corpus-zh and efaqa-corpus-raw (68 vs 40)