Emojilingo: Harnessing AI to Translate Words into Emojis

Francesca Chiusaroli, Federico Sangati, Johanna Monti, Maria Laura Pierucci, Tiberio Uricchio


Abstract
This paper presents an AI experiment of translation in emoji conducted on a glossary from Dante Alighieri’s Comedy. The experiment is part of a project aiming to build up an automated emojibased pivot language providing an interlingua as a tool for linguistic simplification, accessibility, and international communication: Emojilingo. The present test involves human (Emojitaliano) and machine (Chat-GPT) translations in a comparative analysis to devise an automated integrated model highlighting emojis’ expressive ability in transferring senses, clarifying semantic obscurities and ambiguities, and simplifying language. A first preliminary evaluation highlights Chat-GPT’s ability to deal with a classic archaic literary vocabulary, also raising issues on managing criteria for better grasping the meanings and forms and about the multicultural extent of content transfer.
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2024.clicit-1.25
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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CLiC-it
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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205–213
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Francesca Chiusaroli, Federico Sangati, Johanna Monti, Maria Laura Pierucci, and Tiberio Uricchio. 2024. Emojilingo: Harnessing AI to Translate Words into Emojis. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 205–213, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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