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  • A global analysis of emoji usage [Elektronski vir]
    Ljubešić, Nikola, 1979- ; Fišer, Darja, 1978-
    Emojis are a quickly spreading and rather unknown communication phenomenon which occasionally receives attention in the mainstream press, but lacks the scientific exploration it deserves. This paper ... is a first attempt at investigating the global distribution of emojis. We perform our analysis of the spatial distribution of emojis on a dataset of %17 million (and growing) geo-encoded tweets containing emojis by running a cluster analysis over countries represented as emoji distributions and performing correlation analysis of emoji distributions and World Development Indicators. We show that emoji usage tends to draw quite a realistic picture of the living conditions in various parts of our world.
    Source: Proceedings of the 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X) and The EmpiriST Shared Task [Elektronski vir] : ACL 2016 (Str. 82-89)
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2016
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 61942626

    Link(s):

    http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-26

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