An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

M Brandt, CJ Tucker, A Kariryaa, K Rasmussen, C Abel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension

B Weissman, D Tanner - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Emojis are ideograms that are becoming ubiquitous in digital communication. However, no
research has yet investigated how humans process semantic and pragmatic content of …

Semeval 2018 task 2: Multilingual emoji prediction

F Barbieri, J Camacho-Collados… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the results of the first Shared Task on Multilingual Emoji Prediction,
organized as part of SemEval 2018. Given the text of a tweet, the task consists of predicting …

Gender and age influences on interpretation of emoji functions

SC Herring, AR Dainas - ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 2020 - dl.acm.org
An online survey, the Understanding Emoji Survey, was conducted to assess how English-
speaking social media users interpret the pragmatic functions of emoji in examples adapted …

Interpreting emoji pragmatics

AR Dainas, SC Herring - … to internet pragmatics: Theory and practice, 2021 - torrossa.com
This chapter describes the methods and the overall findings of the Understanding Emoji
Survey, which we administered online in early 2018 to determine how social media users …

Through a gender lens: Learning usage patterns of emojis from large-scale android users

Z Chen, X Lu, W Ai, H Li, Q Mei, X Liu - … of the 2018 world wide web …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Based on a large data set of emoji using behavior collected from smartphone users over the
world, this paper investigates gender-specific usage of emojis. We present various …

On the context-free ambiguity of emoji

J Częstochowska, K Gligorić, M Peyrard… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Due to their pictographic nature, emojis come with baked-in, grounded semantics. Although
this makes emojis promising candidates for new forms of more accessible communication, it …

Significant otter: Understanding the role of biosignals in communication

F Liu, C Park, YJ Tham, TY Tsai, L Dabbish… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
With the growing ubiquity of wearable devices, sensed physiological responses provide new
means to connect with others. While recent research demonstrates the expressive potential …

[HTML][HTML] The processing of emoji-word substitutions: A self-paced-reading study

T Scheffler, L Brandt, M de la Fuente… - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
In computer-mediated communication, emojis can be used for various purposes. As small
graphical images, many emojis depict abstract or concrete objects ideogrammatically. We …

Studying cultural differences in emoji usage across the east and the west

SC Guntuku, M Li, L Tay, LH Ungar - Proceedings of the international …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Global acceptance of Emojis suggests a cross-cultural, normative use of Emojis. Meanwhile,
nuances in Emoji use across cultures may also exist due to linguistic differences in …