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…
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The roles of emojis in mobile phone notifications
The texts in mobile messages are not always easy to decipher since tone and body language is removed from the…
Sender-intended functions of emojis in US messaging
Emojis are an extremely common occurrence in mobile communications, but their meaning is open to interpretation. We investigate motivations for…
Oh that’s what you meant!: reducing emoji misunderstanding
Emoji provide a way to express nonverbal conversational cues in computer-mediated communication. However, people need to share the same understanding…
Learning from the ubiquitous language: an empirical analysis of emoji usage of smartphone users
Emojis have been widely used to simplify emotional expression and enrich user experience. As an interesting practice of ubiquitous computing,…
emoji2vec: Learning Emoji Representations from their Description
Many current natural language processing applications for social media rely on representation learning and utilize pre-trained word embeddings. There currently…
A Global Analysis of Emoji Usage
Emojis are a quickly spreading and rather unknown communication phenomenon which occasionally receives attention in the mainstream press, but lacks…
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…
“Blissfully happy” or “ready to fight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji
Emoji are commonly used in modern text communication. However, as graphics with nuanced details, emoji may be open to interpretation….