EmoTag1200: Understanding the Association between Emojis and Emotions

Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Gerard de Melo


Abstract
Given the growing ubiquity of emojis in language, there is a need for methods and resources that shed light on their meaning and communicative role. One conspicuous aspect of emojis is their use to convey affect in ways that may otherwise be non-trivial to achieve. In this paper, we seek to explore the connection between emojis and emotions by means of a new dataset consisting of human-solicited association ratings. We additionally conduct experiments to assess to what extent such associations can be inferred from existing data in an unsupervised manner. Our experiments show that this succeeds when high-quality word-level information is available.
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2020.emnlp-main.720
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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November
Year:
2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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8957–8967
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.720
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.720
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Abu Awal Md Shoeb and Gerard de Melo. 2020. EmoTag1200: Understanding the Association between Emojis and Emotions. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 8957–8967, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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EmoTag1200: Understanding the Association between Emojis and Emotions (Shoeb & de Melo, EMNLP 2020)
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