Semantic journeys: quantifying change in emoji meaning from 2012-2018

The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective. We offer the first longitudinal study of how emoji semantics changes over time, applying techniques from computational linguistics to six years of Twitter data. We identify five patterns in emoji semantic development and...

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Main Authors: Robertson, A, Liza, FF, Nguyen, D, McGillivray, B, Hale, SA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2021