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Impact of Emojis on Automatic Analysis of Individual Emotion Categories

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Publication date30/09/2023
Host publicationProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Place of PublicationShoumen, Bulgaria
PublisherINCOMA Ltd
Pages124-131
Number of pages8
ISBN (electronic)9789544520922
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event14th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Varna, Bulgaria
Duration: 4/09/20236/09/2023
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Conference14th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated titleRANLP 2023
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityVarna
Period4/09/236/09/23
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Conference

Conference14th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated titleRANLP 2023
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityVarna
Period4/09/236/09/23
Internet address

Abstract

Automatic emotion analysis is a highly challenging task for Natural Language Processing, which has so far mainly relied on textual contents to determine the emotion of text. However, words are not the only media that carry emotional information. In social media, people also use emojis to convey their feelings. Recently, researchers have studied emotional aspects of emojis, and use emoji information to improve the emotion detection and classification, but many issues remain to be addressed. In this study, we examine the impact of emoji embedding on emotion classification and intensity prediction on four individual emotion categories, including anger, fear, joy, and sadness, in order to investigate how emojis affect the automatic analysis of individual emotion categories and intensity. We conducted a comparative study by testing five machine learning models with and without emoji embeddings involved. Our experiment demonstrates that emojis have varying impact on different emotion categories, and there is potential that emojis can be used to enhance emotion information processing.