EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo · 2019
Despite being a fairly recent phenomenon, emojis have quickly become ubiquitous.Besides their extensive use in social media, they are now also invoked in customer surveys and feedback forms.Hence, there is a need for techniques to understand their sentiment and emotion.In this work, we provide a method to quantify the emotional association of basic emotions such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness for a set of emojis.We collect and process a unique corpus of 20 million emoji-centric tweets, such that we can capture rich emoji semantics using a comparably small dataset.We evaluate the induced emotion profiles of emojis with regard to their ability to predict word affect intensities as well as sentiment scores.