inproceedings
2022
Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media at NAACL-HLT
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NAACL-HLT Emoji
Abstract
We study the extent to which emoji can be used to add interpretability to embeddings of text and emoji. To do so, we extend the POLAR-framework that transforms word embeddings to interpretable counterparts and apply it to word-emoji embeddings trained on four years of messaging data from the Jodel social network. We devise crowdsourced human judgement experiment to study six use-cases, evaluating against words only, what role emoji can play in adding interpretability to word embeddings. That is, we use a revised POLAR approach interpreting words and emoji with words, emoji or both according to human judgement. We find statistically significant trends demonstrating that emoji can be used to interpret other emoji very well.
Authors
Topics
Emoji Interpretation in NLP
Computational Social Science
Word-Emoji Embeddings
Interpretable Embeddings
Social Media Data Mining
Semantic Analysis of Emojis