Horacio Saggion

Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab, TALN, UPF, Barcelona, Spain
Research Paper

Exploring Emoji Usage and Prediction. Through a Temporal Variation Lens

 Emoji 2018 - Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media |
The frequent use of Emojis on social media platforms has created a new form of multimodal social interaction. Developing methods...
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Interpretable Emoji Prediction via Label-Wise Attention LSTMs

 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing |
Human language has evolved towards newer forms of communication such as social media, where emojis (i.e., ideograms bearing a visual...
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SemEval 2018 Task 2: Multilingual Emoji Prediction

 The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation |
This paper describes the results of the first Shared Task on Multilingual Emoji Prediction, organized as part of SemEval 2018....
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Multimodal Emoji Prediction

 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 |
Emojis are small images that are commonly included in social media text messages. The combination of visual and textual content...
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Are Emojis Predictable?

 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers |
Emojis are ideograms which are naturally combined with plain text to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message....
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What does this Emoji Mean? A Vector Space Skip-Gram Model for Twitter Emojis

 LREC 2016 |
Emojis allow us to describe objects, situations and even feelings with small images, providing a visual and quick way to...
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How Cosmopolitan Are Emojis?: Exploring Emojis Usage and Meaning over Different Languages with Distributional Semantics

 MM '16: Proceedings of the 24th ACM international conference on Multimedia |
Choosing the right emoji to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message has become part of our daily...
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Revealing Patterns of Twitter Emoji. Usage in Barcelona and Madrid

 19th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence |
Emojis are small sized images which are naturally combined with free text to visually complement or condense the meaning of...
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Towards the Understanding of Gaming Audiences by Modeling Twitch Emotes

 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text |
Videogame streaming platforms have become a paramount example of noisy user-generated text. These are websites where gaming is broadcasted, and...