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+# coding: utf-8
+
+# In[1]:
+
+
+import pandas as pd
+from IPython.display import clear_output, Markdown, Math
+import ipywidgets as widgets
+import os
+import unicodedata as uni
+import numpy as np
+from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
+from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize
+from nltk.corpus import wordnet
+import math
+import pprint
+
+
+# # Naive Approach
+
+
+#######################
+# Helper functions
+#######################
+
+def stemming(messages):
+    stemmed_messages = []
+    ps = PorterStemmer()
+    for m in messages:
+        words = word_tokenize(m)
+        sm = []
+        for w in words:
+            sm.append(ps.stem(w))
+        m = (" ").join(sm)
+        stemmed_messages.append(m)
+    return stemmed_messages
+
+
+# * compare words to emoji descriptions
+def evaluate_sentence(sentence, table, description_key = 'description', lang = 'eng'):
+    
+    tokenized_sentence = word_tokenize(sentence)
+    n = len(tokenized_sentence)
+    l = table.shape[0]
+    matrix_list = []
+    
+    for index, row in table.iterrows():
+        emoji_tokens = word_tokenize(row[description_key])
+        m = len(emoji_tokens)
+
+        mat = np.zeros(shape=(m,n))
+        for i in range(len(emoji_tokens)):
+            for j in range(len(tokenized_sentence)):
+                syn1 = wordnet.synsets(emoji_tokens[i],lang=lang)
+                if len(syn1) == 0:
+                    continue
+                w1 = syn1[0]
+                #print(j, tokenized_sentence)
+                syn2 = wordnet.synsets(tokenized_sentence[j], lang=lang)
+                if len(syn2) == 0:
+                    continue
+                w2 = syn2[0]
+                val = w1.wup_similarity(w2)
+                if val is None:
+                    continue
+                mat[i,j] = val
+        #print(row['character'], mat)
+        matrix_list.append(mat)
+            
+    return matrix_list
+    
+    
+###########################
+#Functions to be called from main script
+###########################
+    
+
+# load and preprocess data
+# emojis_to_consider can be either a list or "all"
+def prepareData(stemming=False, emojis_to_consider="all"):
+
+    table = pd.read_csv('../Tools/emoji_descriptions.csv')
+    table.head()
+    
+    if(stemming):
+        table['description'] = stemming(table['description'])
+    
+    #collect the emojis
+    lookup = {}
+    emoji_set = []
+    for index, row in table.iterrows():
+        if(emojis_to_consider=="all" or (type(emojis_to_consider)==list and row['character'] in emojis_to_consider)):
+            lookup[index] = row['character']
+            emoji_set.append(row['character'])
+
+    emoji_set = set(emoji_set)
+    
+    return lookup, table
+
+# make a prediction for an input sentence
+def predict(sentence, lookup, table, emojis_to_consider="all", criteria="threshold", description_key='description', lang = 'eng', n=10, t=0.9):
+
+    result = evaluate_sentence(sentence, table, description_key, lang)
+    
+    if(criteria=="summed"):
+        indexes = np.argsort([-np.sum(x) for x in result])[0:n]
+    elif (criteria=="max_val"):
+        indexes = np.argsort([-np.max(x) for x in result])[0:n]
+    elif(criteria=="avg"):
+        indexes = np.argsort([-np.mean(x) for x in result])[0:n]
+    else:
+        indexes= np.argsort([-len(np.where(x>t)[0]) / (x.shape[0] * x.shape[1]) for x in result])[0:n] 
+    
+    if(emojis_to_consider!="all"):
+        for i in indexes:
+            if (i not in lookup):
+                indexes = np.delete(indexes, [i])
+    
+    # build a result table
+    table_array = [[lookup[indexes[i]], str(table.iloc[indexes[i]][description_key])] for i in range(n) ]
+      
+    table_frame = pd.DataFrame(table_array, columns=[criteria, 'description'])
+    
+    #display(table_frame)
+    
+    return list(table_frame[criteria])
+
+#predict("I like to travel by train", description_key='description' , lang='eng')
+