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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,…

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Based on a large data set of emoji using behavior collected from smartphone users over the world, this paper investigates gender-specific usage of emojis. We present various interesting findings that evidence a considerable difference in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Zhenpeng Chen , Xuan Lu , Wei Ai , Huoran Li , Qiaozhu Mei , Xuanzhe Liu

Use of figurative language, such as metaphors and idioms, is common in our daily-life communications, and it can also be found in Software Engineering (SE) channels, such as comments on GitHub. Automatically interpreting figurative language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mia Mohammad Imran , Preetha Chatterjee , Kostadin Damevski

Emotions play a significant role in teamwork and collaborative activities like software development. While researchers have analyzed developer emotions in various software artifacts (e.g., issues, pull requests), few studies have focused on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Amirali Sajadi , Kostadin Damevski , Preetha Chatterjee

Most social media platforms are largely based on text, and users often write posts to describe where they are, what they are seeing, and how they are feeling. Because written text lacks the emotional cues of spoken and face-to-face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Fred Morstatter , Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Huan Liu

Usage of emoji in social media platforms has seen a rapid increase over the last few years. Majority of the social media posts are laden with emoji and users often use more than one emoji in a single social media post to express their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Anurag Illendula , Manish Reddy Yedulla

Emoji reactions are a frequently used feature of messaging platforms, yet their communicative role remains understudied. Prior work on emojis has focused predominantly on in-text usage, showing that emojis embedded in messages tend to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Serena Tardelli , Lorenzo Alvisi , Lorenzo Cima , Stefano Cresci , Maurizio Tesconi

Given the growing ubiquity of emojis in language, there is a need for methods and resources that shed light on their meaning and communicative role. One conspicuous aspect of emojis is their use to convey affect in ways that may otherwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Abu Shoeb , Gerard de Melo

Emoticons are indispensable in online communications. With users' growing needs for more customized and expressive emoticons, recent messaging applications begin to support (limited) multi-modal emoticons: e.g., enhancing emoticons with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Pengcheng An , Ziqi Zhou , Qing Liu , Yifei Yin , Linghao Du , Da-Yuan Huang , Jian Zhao

Emojis are widely used in online social networks to express emotions, attitudes, and opinions. As emotional-oriented characters, emojis can be modeled as important features of emotions towards the recipient or subject for sentiment…

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

In the rapidly evolving landscape of social media, the introduction of new emojis in Unicode release versions presents a structured opportunity to explore digital language evolution. Analyzing a large dataset of sampled English tweets, we…

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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

Online media, such as blogs and social networking sites, generate massive volumes of unstructured data of great interest to analyze the opinions and sentiments of individuals and organizations. Novel approaches beyond Natural Language…

Emojis have been widely used in textual communications as a new way to convey nonverbal cues. An interesting observation is the various emoji usage patterns among different users. In this paper, we investigate the correlation between user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Weijian Li , Yuxiao Chen , Tianran Hu , Jiebo Luo

Leveraging Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to simulate human behaviors when processing multimodal information, especially in the context of social media, has garnered immense interest due to its broad potential and far-reaching implications.…

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The frequent use of Emojis on social media platforms has created a new form of multimodal social interaction. Developing methods for the study and representation of emoji semantics helps to improve future multimodal communication systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Francesco Barbieri , Luis Marujo , Pradeep Karuturi , William Brendel , Horacio Saggion

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

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

In the burgeoning realm of cryptocurrency, social media platforms like Twitter have become pivotal in influencing market trends and investor sentiments. In our study, we leverage GPT-4 and a fine-tuned transformer-based BERT model for a…

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