We are looking for undergraduate students to annotate emotions in text. Anyone who is hired will be compensated approximately $15/hour.
To apply, please complete this survey https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/6823133. We will contact you within 1 week of your application.
If you have any questions, please contact Jose at jzavala3@illinois.edu.
Summary of the project:
Capturing and Understanding Emotions in Text
Analyzing data to capture various emotions is very important for a wide number of applications, such as consumer engagement, experience in healthcare, advertising, etc. Also important is exposure to, or strong motivation to learn about emotions in text communication. This undergraduate opportunity will be part of a larger project in our lab that investigates new and better ways for people to interact with machines as well as with one another.
The selected candidate will:
-Not be expected to have previous experience
-Work with a faculty mentor and/or graduate students with experience in Language and Emotion.
-Annotate/code textual data to capture important affective information;
-Learn about the challenges and opportunities of processing user-generated data (i.e., social media) and learn about the role of emotions in human-computer and human-human interaction.
To apply, please complete this survey https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/6823133. We will contact you within 1 week of your application.
If you have any questions, please contact Jose at jzavala3@illinois.edu.