Wei Ai

Research Paper

Untangling Emoji Popularity through Semantic Embeddings

 Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017) |
Emojis have gone viral on the Internet across platforms and devices. Interwoven into our daily communications, they have become a...
Research Paper

Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users

 The Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018) |
Based on a large data set of emoji using behavior collected from smartphone users over the world, this paper investigates...
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 |
Emojis have been widely used to simplify emotional expression and enrich user experience. As an interesting practice of ubiquitous computing,...