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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

There is a new generation of emoticons, called emojis, that is increasingly being used in mobile communications and social media. In the past two years, over ten billion emojis were used on Twitter. Emojis are Unicode graphic symbols, used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Petra Kralj Novak , Jasmina Smailović , Borut Sluban , Igor Mozetič

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

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

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

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

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 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

Processing of raw text is the crucial first step in text classification and sentiment analysis. However, text processing steps are often performed using off-the-shelf routines and pre-built word dictionaries without optimizing for domain,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Manar D. Samad , Nalin D. Khounviengxay , Megan A. Witherow

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

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

Recent approaches for sentiment lexicon induction have capitalized on pre-trained word embeddings that capture latent semantic properties. However, embeddings obtained by optimizing performance of a given task (e.g. predicting contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Silvio Amir , Rámon Astudillo , Wang Ling , Paula C. Carvalho , Mário J. Silva

Emojis have become an integral part of digital communication, enriching text by conveying emotions, tone, and intent. Existing emoji recommendation methods are primarily evaluated based on their ability to match the exact emoji a user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zhongyi Qiu , Kangyi Qiu , Hanjia Lyu , Wei Xiong , Jiebo Luo

Cross-lingual embeddings represent the meaning of words from different languages in the same vector space. Recent work has shown that it is possible to construct such representations by aligning independently learned monolingual embedding…

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

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

A word embedding is a low-dimensional, dense and real- valued vector representation of a word. Word embeddings have been used in many NLP tasks. They are usually gener- ated from a large text corpus. The embedding of a word cap- tures both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Quanzhi Li , Sameena Shah , Xiaomo Liu , Armineh Nourbakhsh

The increasing use of dialogue agents makes it extremely desirable for them to understand and acknowledge the implied emotions to respond like humans with empathy. Chatbots using traditional techniques analyze emotions based on the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Akhilesh Ravi , Amit Yadav , Jainish Chauhan , Jatin Dholakia , Naman Jain , Mayank Singh

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, 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