Incorporating Emoji Descriptions Improves Tweet Classification (open access)

Incorporating Emoji Descriptions Improves Tweet Classification

Article presenting a simple strategy to process emojis in Tweets: replace them with their natural language description and use pretrained word embeddings as normally done with standard words. Results show that this strategy is more effective than using pretrained emoji embeddings for tweet classification.
Date: June 2019
Creator: Singh, Abhishek K.; Blanco, Eduardo & Jin, Wei
System: The UNT Digital Library