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Sentiment analysis has various application scenarios in software engineering (SE), such as detecting developers' emotions in commit messages and identifying their opinions on Q&A forums. However, commonly used out-of-the-box sentiment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Zhenpeng Chen , Yanbin Cao , Xuan Lu , Qiaozhu Mei , Xuanzhe Liu

Online writing lacks the non-verbal cues present in face-to-face communication, which provide additional contextual information about the utterance, such as the speaker's intention or affective state. To fill this void, a number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Umashanthi Pavalanathan , Jacob Eisenstein

NLP tasks are often limited by scarcity of manually annotated data. In social media sentiment analysis and related tasks, researchers have therefore used binarized emoticons and specific hashtags as forms of distant supervision. Our paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Bjarke Felbo , Alan Mislove , Anders Søgaard , Iyad Rahwan , Sune Lehmann

Global acceptance of Emojis suggests a cross-cultural, normative use of Emojis. Meanwhile, nuances in Emoji use across cultures may also exist due to linguistic differences in expressing emotions and diversity in conceptualizing topics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Sharath Chandra Guntuku , Mingyang Li , Louis Tay , Lyle H. Ungar

This paper explores the use of emojis in financial sentiment analysis, focusing on the social media platform StockTwits. Emojis, increasingly prevalent in digital communication, have potential as compact indicators of investor sentiment,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ahmed Mahrous , Roberto Di Pietro

Emojis are small images that are commonly included in social media text messages. The combination of visual and textual content in the same message builds up a modern way of communication, that automatic systems are not used to deal with.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Francesco Barbieri , Miguel Ballesteros , Francesco Ronzano , Horacio Saggion

Sentiment analysis on large-scale social media data is important to bridge the gaps between social media contents and real world activities including political election prediction, individual and public emotional status monitoring and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yuxiao Chen , Jianbo Yuan , Quanzeng You , Jiebo Luo

Emoji is becoming a ubiquitous language and gaining worldwide popularity in recent years including the field of software engineering (SE). As nonverbal cues, emojis are widely used in user understanding tasks such as sentiment analysis, but…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Xuan Lu , Yanbin Cao , Zhenpeng Chen , Xuanzhe Liu

Emojis have evolved as complementary sources for expressing emotion in social-media platforms where posts are mostly composed of texts and images. In order to increase the expressiveness of the social media posts, users associate relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Anurag Illendula , Kv Manohar , Manish Reddy Yedulla

We widely use emojis in social networking to heighten, mitigate or negate the sentiment of the text. Emoji suggestions already exist in many cross-platform applications but an emoji is predicted solely based a few prominent words instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Pranav Venkit , Zeba Karishma , Chi-Yang Hsu , Rahul Katiki , Kenneth Huang , Shomir Wilson , Patrick Dudas

Emojis are a succinct form of language which can express concrete meanings, emotions, and intentions. Emojis also carry signals that can be used to better understand communicative intent. They have become a ubiquitous part of our daily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Weicheng Ma , Ruibo Liu , Lili Wang , Soroush Vosoughi

In the absence of nonverbal cues during messaging communication, users express part of their emotions using emojis. Thus, having emojis in the vocabulary of text messaging language models can significantly improve many natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Moeen Mostafavi , Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani , Fateme Nikseresht , Seyed Ahmad Mansouri

A plethora of words are used to describe the spectrum of human emotions, but how many emotions are there really, and how do they interact? Over the past few decades, several theories of emotion have been proposed, each based around the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Eugene Yuta Bann

With the explosive growth of social media, opinionated postings with emojis have increased explosively. Many emojis are used to express emotions, attitudes, and opinions. Emoji representation learning can be helpful to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiaowei Yuan , Jingyuan Hu , Xiaodan Zhang , Honglei Lv

Emoji have grown to become one of the most important forms of communication on the web. With its widespread use, measuring the similarity of emoji has become an important problem for contemporary text processing since it lies at the heart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Sanjaya Wijeratne , Lakshika Balasuriya , Amit Sheth , Derek Doran

Emojis are being frequently used in todays digital world to express from simple to complex thoughts more than ever before. Hence, they are also being used in sentiment analysis and targeted marketing campaigns. In this work, we performed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Sirisha Velampalli , Chandrashekar Muniyappa , Ashutosh Saxena

Social media is increasingly used by humans to express their feelings and opinions in the form of short text messages. Detecting sentiments in the text has a wide range of applications including identifying anxiety or depression of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaunak Joshi , Deepali Deshpande

Generating emotional language is a key step towards building empathetic natural language processing agents. However, a major challenge for this line of research is the lack of large-scale labeled training data, and previous studies are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Xianda Zhou , William Yang Wang

The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective. We offer the first longitudinal study of how emoji semantics changes over time, applying techniques from computational linguistics to six years of Twitter data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexander Robertson , Farhana Ferdousi Liza , Dong Nguyen , Barbara McGillivray , Scott A. Hale

In 2015, the Unicode Consortium introduced five skin tone emoji that can be used in combination with emoji representing human figures and body parts. In this study, use of the skin tone emoji is analyzed geographically in a large sample of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Steven Coats