EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis

Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo


Abstract
Despite being a fairly recent phenomenon, emojis have quickly become ubiquitous. Besides their extensive use in social media, they are now also invoked in customer surveys and feedback forms. Hence, there is a need for techniques to understand their sentiment and emotion. In this work, we provide a method to quantify the emotional association of basic emotions such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness for a set of emojis. We collect and process a unique corpus of 20 million emoji-centric tweets, such that we can capture rich emoji semantics using a comparably small dataset. We evaluate the induced emotion profiles of emojis with regard to their ability to predict word affect intensities as well as sentiment scores.
Anthology ID:
R19-1126
Volume:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
Month:
September
Year:
2019
Address:
Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
1094–1103
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/R19-1126
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_126
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Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji, and Gerard de Melo. 2019. EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 1094–1103, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis (Shoeb et al., RANLP 2019)
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