Published in UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 2021
[2021UKCI] Emojis serve as visual language elements, transcending linguistic barriers but evolving in meaning based on context and emotions. Online, they play a role in cancel culture, with emojis like the clown or snake conveying subtle aggression. Novel emoji embeddings, emphasizing emotional content, outperform existing embeddings in sentiment analysis, capturing nuanced expressions effectively.
Recommended citation: Barry, E., Jameel, S. and Raza, H., 2021, September. Emojional: Emoji Embeddings. In UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (pp. 312-324). Cham: Springer International Publishing.