Title
emoji2vec: Learning Emoji Representations from their Description.
Abstract
Many current natural language processing applications for social media rely on representation learning and utilize pre-trained word embeddings. There currently exist several publicly-available, pre-trained sets of word embeddings, but they contain few or no emoji representations even as emoji usage in social media has increased. In this paper we release emoji2vec, pre-trained embeddings for all Unicode emoji which are learned from their description in the Unicode emoji standard. The resulting emoji embeddings can be readily used in downstream social natural language processing applications alongside word2vec. We demonstrate, for the downstream task of sentiment analysis, that emoji embeddings learned from short descriptions outperforms a skip-gram model trained on a large collection of tweets, while avoiding the need for contexts in which emoji need to appear frequently in order to estimate a representation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.18653/v1/W16-6208
SocialNLP@EMNLP
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1609.08359
27
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.15
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ben Eisner1272.84
Tim Rocktäschel251634.81
Isabelle Augenstein327829.99
Matko Bosnjak4686.52
Sebastian Riedel51625103.73