Title
EmojiNet: Building a Machine Readable Sense Inventory for Emoji.
Abstract
Emoji are a contemporary and extremely popular way to enhance electronic communication. Without rigid semantics attached to them, emoji symbols take on different meanings based on the context of a message. Thus, like the word sense disambiguation task in natural language processing, machines also need to disambiguate the meaning or 'sense' of an emoji. In a first step toward achieving this goal, this paper presents EmojiNet, the first machine readable sense inventory for emoji. EmojiNet is a resource enabling systems to link emoji with their context-specific meaning. It is automatically constructed by integrating multiple emoji resources with BabelNet, which is the most comprehensive multilingual sense inventory available to date. The paper discusses its construction, evaluates the automatic resource creation process, and presents a use case where EmojiNet disambiguates emoji usage in tweets. EmojiNet is available online for use at http://emojinet.knoesis.org.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_33
SocInfo
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Emoji Analysis,Emoji Sense Disambiguation,EmojiNet
Conference
abs/1610.07710
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.70
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanjaya Wijeratne1584.71
Lakshika Balasuriya2393.13
Amit P. Sheth3109501885.56
Derek Doran417021.22