2^nd International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media (Emoji 2019)

May 13-14, 2019, San Francisco, California, USA

Scope & Topics

With the rise of social media, emoji have become an extremely popular form of communication in social media. They are equally popular across major social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. As of 2017, Facebook and Facebook Messenger process over 60 million and 6 billion messages with emoji per day, respectively. In 2015, Instagram reported that nearly half of the photo comments posted on Instagram contains emoji and Instagram users tend to replace slang terms using emoji in photo comments. Another study revealed that emoji are slowly taking over emoticons on Twitter. Emoji data generated on social media sites have been utilized to study how emoji are used across different languages, cultures, user communities and as features to learn machine learning models to solve problems that span across many applications, including sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, and sarcasm detection. The ability to automatically process, derive meaning, and interpret text fused with emoji will be essential as society embraces emoji as a standard form of online communication. Thus, Emoji2019 tries to bring together computer and social science researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss and exchange ideas on understanding social, cultural, communicative, and linguistic roles of emoji while leading the discussions on building novel computational methods to understand and interpret them.

Emoji2019 is focused on research and discussions on challenges in emoji understanding, including but not limited to the following research directions. We encourage contributions on the challenges in emoji understanding and on applications that add to the scientific understanding

Topics of Interest :

• Challenges in interpreting the meaning of an emoji in a message context
  
• Novel methods for emoji sense disambiguation
  
• Novel methods for calculating emoji similarity
  
• Novel methods for emoji prediction
  
• Emoji-based retrieval and search
  
• Challenges in using emoji as a language
  
• Emoji’s effects on the evolution of language constructs used on social media such as emoticons and slang terms
  
• Common emoji usages in social media
  
• Cultural and community-specific emoji meaning evolution and interpretation
  
• Distinct social and communicative roles of emoji
  
• Understanding sender intention and receiver interpretation of emoji
  
• Emoji rendering and interface design challenges
  
• Applications of emoji in social media
  
• Emoji and the Law
  
• Research related to other pictorial representations such as emoticons, kaomoji, emotes, customized emoji (e.g., bitmoji), and animated gifs
  
  

Important Dates

Submission Deadline	:	February 04, 2019
Authors Notification	:	February 23, 2019
Final Manuscript Due	:	March 03, 2019

 

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