Qiaozhu Mei

Research Paper

Decoding the New World Language: Analyzing the Popularity, Roles, and Utility of Emojis

Emoji 2019 - Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media ยท

Emojis have quickly become a universal language that is used by worldwide users, for everyday tasks, across language barriers, and...

Research Paper

Untangling Emoji Popularity through Semantic Embeddings

Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017) ยท

Emojis have gone viral on the Internet across platforms and devices. Interwoven into our daily communications, they have become a...

Research Paper

Learning from the ubiquitous language: an empirical analysis of emoji usage of smartphone users

UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing ยท

Emojis have been widely used to simplify emotional expression and enrich user experience. As an interesting practice of ubiquitous computing,...