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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

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

Emojis have gained immense popularity on social platforms, serving as a common means to supplement or replace text. However, existing data mining approaches generally either completely ignore or simply treat emojis as ordinary Unicode…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhou Zhang , Dongzeng Tan , Jiaan Wang , Yilong Chen , Jiarong Xu

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social media, as a means for computer-mediated communication, has been extensively used to study the sentiment expressed by users around events or topics. There is however a gap in the longitudinal study of how sentiment evolved in social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Wenjie Yin , Rabab Alkhalifa , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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

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

Emojis and emoticons serve as non-verbal cues and are increasingly prevalent across various platforms, including Modern Code Review. These cues often carry emotive or instructive weight for developers. Our study dives into the utility of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sharif Ahmed , Nasir U. Eisty

Emojis are widely used in online financial communication, but it is unclear whether they provide transferable sentiment signals across languages, platforms, and asset communities. This study examines the extent to which emoji usage,…

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

Over the past decade, emoji have emerged as a new and widespread form of digital communication, spanning diverse social networks and spoken languages. We propose to treat these ideograms as a new modality in their own right, distinct in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Spencer Cappallo , Stacey Svetlichnaya , Pierre Garrigues , Thomas Mensink , Cees G. M. Snoek

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

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

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

Today, the web has become a mandatory platform to express users' opinions, emotions and feelings about various events. Every person using his smartphone can give his opinion about the purchase of a product, the occurrence of an accident,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Kazem Taghandiki , Elnaz Rezaei Ehsan