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Robertson, Alexander, Liza, Farhana Ferdousi 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4854-5619, Nguyen, Dong, McGillivray, Barbara and Hale, Scott A.
(2021)
Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018.
In: UNSPECIFIED.
Abstract
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 find evidence that the less abstract an emoji is, the more likely it is to undergo semantic change. In addition, we analyse select emoji in more detail, examining the effect of seasonality and world events on emoji semantics. To aid future work on emoji and semantics, we make our data publicly available along with a web-based interface that anyone can use to explore semantic change in emoji.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Data Science and AI |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2024 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2024 01:16 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96842 |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arXiv.2105.00846 |
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