Assessing Emoji Use in Modern Text Processing Tools
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Gerard de Melo
Abstract
Emojis have become ubiquitous in digital communication, due to their visual appeal as well as their ability to vividly convey human emotion, among other factors. This also leads to an increased need for systems and tools to operate on text containing emojis. In this study, we assess this support by considering test sets of tweets with emojis, based on which we perform a series of experiments investigating the ability of prominent NLP and text processing tools to adequately process them. In particular, we consider tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, as well as sentiment analysis. Our findings show that many systems still have notable shortcomings when operating on text containing emojis.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{shoeb-de-melo-2021-assessing,
title = "Assessing Emoji Use in Modern Text Processing Tools",
author = "Shoeb, Abu Awal Md and
de Melo, Gerard",
editor = "Zong, Chengqing and
Xia, Fei and
Li, Wenjie and
Navigli, Roberto",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.110/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.110",
pages = "1379--1388"
}