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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

Emoji are a contemporary and extremely popular way to enhance electronic communication. Without rigid semantics attached to them, emoji symbols take on different meanings based on the context of a message. Thus, like the word sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Sanjaya Wijeratne , Lakshika Balasuriya , Amit Sheth , Derek Doran

Emojis have become ubiquitous in digital communication, due to their visual appeal as well as their ability to vividly convey human emotion, among other factors. The growing prominence of emojis in social media and other instant messaging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Abu Awal Md Shoeb , Gerard de Melo

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

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

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

Emojis, as a new way of conveying nonverbal cues, are widely adopted in computer-mediated communications. In this paper, first from a message sender perspective, we focus on people's motives in using four types of emojis -- positive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Tianran Hu , Han Guo , Hao Sun , Thuy-vy Thi Nguyen , Jiebo Luo

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

Prosodic features such as pitch, timing, and intonation are central to spoken communication, conveying emotion, intent, and discourse structure. In text-based settings, where these cues are absent, emojis act as visual surrogates that add…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Giulio Zhou , Tsz Kin Lam , Alexandra Birch , Barry Haddow

In this paper, we investigate the emotion recognition ability of the pre-training language model, namely BERT. By the nature of the framework of BERT, a two-sentence structure, we adapt BERT to continues dialogue emotion prediction tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yen-Hao Huang , Ssu-Rui Lee , Mau-Yun Ma , Yi-Hsin Chen , Ya-Wen Yu , Yi-Shin Chen

Nowadays, the automatic detection of emotions is employed by many applications in different fields like security informatics, e-learning, humor detection, targeted advertising, etc. Many of these applications focus on social media and treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Wegdan Hussien , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub , Yahya Tashtoush , Mohammed Al-Kabi

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world communication settings, yet their ability to resolve context-dependent ambiguity remains underexplored. In this work, we present EMODIS, a new benchmark for evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiacheng Huang , Ning Yu , Xiaoyin Yi

During online chats, body-language and vocal characteristics are not part of the communication mechanism making it challenging to facilitate an accurate interpretation of feelings, emotions, and attitudes. The use of emojis to express…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Moeen Mostafavi , Michael D. Porter

Transfer learning has been widely used in natural language processing through deep pretrained language models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and Universal Sentence Encoder. Despite the great success,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Maryam Hasan , Elke Rundensteiner , Emmanuel Agu

In this paper, we propose a new framework for fine-grained emotion prediction in the text through emotion definition modeling. Our approach involves a multi-task learning framework that models definitions of emotions as an auxiliary task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Gargi Singh , Dhanajit Brahma , Piyush Rai , Ashutosh Modi

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

With the rapid development of the internet, online social media welcomes people with different backgrounds through its diverse content. The increasing usage of emoji becomes a noticeable trend thanks to emoji's rich information beyond…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Letian Peng , Zilong Wang , Hang Liu , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang

Emoji is an essential component in dialogues which has been broadly utilized on almost all social platforms. It could express more delicate feelings beyond plain texts and thus smooth the communications between users, making dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Rui Yan , Maosong Sun

Personality detection from text is commonly performed by analysing users' social media posts. However, existing methods heavily rely on large-scale annotated datasets, making it challenging to obtain high-quality personality labels.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lingzhi Shen , Xiaohao Cai , Yunfei Long , Imran Razzak , Guanming Chen , Shoaib Jameel

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hanjia Lyu , Weihong Qi , Zhongyu Wei , Jiebo Luo