Investigating Redundancy in Emoji Use: Study on a Twitter Based Corpus

Donato, Giulia; Paggio, Patrizia

doi:10.18653/v1/w17-5216

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“…Multimodal relations primarily used connections to a broader semantic field or metonymy, not connections redundant with the text or fully disconnected from it. This is consistent with corpus data from Twitter suggesting emoji are used to add new information more often than repeating information in sentences (Donato & Paggio, 2017). This suggests that substitutive emoji are being used in a way that is consistent with the semantics of their replaced words or, barring that directly, metonymically associated.…”

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“…We also coded the semantic relationship of emoji to the rest of the sentence. An emoji was ‘redundant’ if the meaning of the emoji also occurred in the text, while it was ‘extratextual’ if the meaning was not mentioned in the text (Donato & Paggio, 2017). ‘Associative’ emoji connected to the broader semantic field evoked by a sentence.…”

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The grammar of emoji? Constraints on communicative pictorial sequencing

2019

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Emoji have become a prominent part of interactive digital communication. Here, we ask the questions: does a grammatical system govern the way people use emoji; and how do emoji interact with the grammar of written text? We conducted two experiments that asked participants to have a digital conversation with each other using only emoji (Experiment 1) or to substitute at least one emoji for a word in the sentences (Experiment 2). First, we found that the emoji-only utterances of participants remained at simplistic levels of patterning, primarily appearing as one-unit utterances (as formulaic expressions or responsive emotions) or as linear sequencing (for example, repeating the same emoji or providing an unordered list of semantically related emoji). Emoji playing grammatical roles (i.e., ‘parts-of-speech’) were minimal, and showed little consistency in ‘word order’. Second, emoji were substituted more for nouns and adjectives than verbs, while also typically conveying nonredundant information to the sentences. These findings suggest that, while emoji may follow tendencies in their interactions with grammatical structure in multimodal text-emoji productions, they lack grammatical structure on their own.

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The grammar of emoji? Constraints on communicative pictorial sequencing

2019

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“…Emoji need to be integrated with the text in order to form a complete meaning (Zhou et al, 2017), helping to enhance the clarity and credibility of the text (Daniel and Camp, 2018). In practice, users tend to use emoji as a supplement to text (Ai et al, 2017; Donato and Paggio, 2017), which also indicates that emoji is a paralanguage.…”

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A Systematic Review of Emoji: Current Research and Future Perspectives

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A growing body of research explores emoji, which are visual symbols in computer mediated communication (CMC). In the 20 years since the first set of emoji was released, research on it has been on the increase, albeit in a variety of directions. We reviewed the extant body of research on emoji and noted the development, usage, function, and application of emoji. In this review article, we provide a systematic review of the extant body of work on emoji, reviewing how they have developed, how they are used differently, what functions they have and what research has been conducted on them in different domains. Furthermore, we summarize directions for future research on this topic.

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“…When embedded in text, emoji sometimes simply replace a word, but more often they provide new information which was not contained in the text alone [1], [29]. Emoji can be used as a supplemental modality to clarify the intended sense of an ambiguous message [35], attach sentiment to a message [37], or subvert the original meaning of the text entirely in ways a word could not [12], [30]. Emoji carry meaning on their own, and possess compositionality allowing (00:08.33) (00: 16.67) (00:25.00) (00:33.33) (00:41.67) Entire Video A.…”

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New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

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IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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Over the past decade, emoji have emerged as a new and widespread form of digital communication, spanning diverse social networks and spoken languages. We propose to treat these ideograms as a new modality in their own right, distinct in their semantic structure from both the text in which they are often embedded as well as the images which they resemble. As a new modality, emoji present rich novel possibilities for representation and interaction. In this paper, we explore the challenges that arise naturally from considering the emoji modality through the lens of multimedia research. Specifically, the ways in which emoji can be related to other common modalities such as text and images. To do so, we first present a large scale dataset of real-world emoji usage collected from Twitter. This dataset contains examples of both text-emoji and image-emoji relationships. We present baseline results on the challenge of predicting emoji from both text and images, using state-of-the-art neural networks. Further, we offer a first consideration into the problem of how to account for new, unseen emoji -a relevant issue as the emoji vocabulary continues to expand on a yearly basis. Finally, we present results for multimedia retrieval using emoji as queries.

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Investigating Redundancy in Emoji Use: Study on a Twitter Based Corpus

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

The grammar of emoji? Constraints on communicative pictorial sequencing

The grammar of emoji? Constraints on communicative pictorial sequencing

A Systematic Review of Emoji: Current Research and Future Perspectives

New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

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