Francesco Barbieri
Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab, TALN, UPF, Barcelona, Spain
Multi-task Emoji Learning
Emojis are very common in social media and understanding their underlying semantics is of great interest from a Natural Language...
Exploring Emoji Usage and Prediction. Through a Temporal Variation Lens
The frequent use of Emojis on social media platforms has created a new form of multimodal social interaction. Developing methods...
Interpretable Emoji Prediction via Label-Wise Attention LSTMs
Human language has evolved towards newer forms of communication such as social media, where emojis (i.e., ideograms bearing a visual...
SemEval 2018 Task 2: Multilingual Emoji Prediction
This paper describes the results of the first Shared Task on Multilingual Emoji Prediction, organized as part of SemEval 2018....
Multimodal Emoji Prediction
Emojis are small images that are commonly included in social media text messages. The combination of visual and textual content...
Are Emojis Predictable?
Emojis are ideograms which are naturally combined with plain text to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message....
What does this Emoji Mean? A Vector Space Skip-Gram Model for Twitter Emojis
Emojis allow us to describe objects, situations and even feelings with small images, providing a visual and quick way to...
How Cosmopolitan Are Emojis?: Exploring Emojis Usage and Meaning over Different Languages with Distributional Semantics
Choosing the right emoji to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message has become part of our daily...
Revealing Patterns of Twitter Emoji. Usage in Barcelona and Madrid
Emojis are small sized images which are naturally combined with free text to visually complement or condense the meaning of...
Towards the Understanding of Gaming Audiences by Modeling Twitch Emotes
Videogame streaming platforms have become a paramount example of noisy user-generated text. These are websites where gaming is broadcasted, and...