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What does this Emoji Mean? A Vector Space Skip-Gram Model for Twitter Emojis

Year: 2016

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Emojis allow us to describe objects, situations and even feelings with small images, providing a visual and quick way to communicate.In this paper, we analyse emojis used in Twitter with distributional semantic models.We retrieve 10 millions tweets posted by USA users, and we build several skip gram word embedding models by mapping in the same vectorial space both words and emojis.We test our models with semantic similarity experiments, comparing the output of our models with human assessment.We also carry out an exhaustive qualitative evaluation, showing interesting results.

Source: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)

DOI: 10.63317/2itmcbiskpr6

Authors: Francesco Barbieri, Francesco Ronzano, Horacio Saggion

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Language: English

Topic: Digital Communication and Language

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, FP7 Information and Communication Technologies

Awards: G3402147602, G6932722290