Abstract
Emoji have become a significant part of our informal textual communication. Previous work, addressing the societal and linguistic functions of emoji, overlooked the relation between the semantics and the visual variations of the symbols. In this paper we model and analyze the semantic drift of emoji and discuss the features that may be contributing to the drift, some are unique to emoji and some are more general. Specifically, we explore the relations between graphical changes and semantic changes.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.findings-emnlp.310
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4206–4211
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.310
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Eyal Arviv and Oren Tsur. 2022. How to Do Things without Words: Modeling Semantic Drift of Emoji. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 4206–4211, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- How to Do Things without Words: Modeling Semantic Drift of Emoji (Arviv & Tsur, Findings 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nodalida-main-page/2022.findings-emnlp.310.pdf