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# Emoji 2018
Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media

### Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media (Emoji 2018)
co-located with the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018)

### Stanford, CA, USA, June 25, 2018.

Edited by

### Sanjaya Wijeratne *
Emre Kiciman **
Horacio Saggion ***
Amit Sheth *

* Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
** Information and Data Sciences Group, Microsoft Research AI, Redmond, Washington, USA
*** Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

## Table of Contents

### Full Papers

- I Stand With You: Using Emojis to Study Solidarity in Crisis Events
  Sashank Santhanam, Vidhushini Srinivasan, Shaina Glass, Samira Shaikh
- Multi-task Emoji Learning
  Francesco Barbieri, Luís Marujo, Pradeep Karuturi, William Brendel
- Learning Emoji Embeddings using Emoji Co-occurrence Network Graph
  Anurag Illendula, Manish Reddy Yedulla
- New Methodologies to Evaluate the Consistency of Emoji Sentiment Lexica and Alternatives to Generate them in a Fully Automatic Unsupervised Way
  Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Jonathan Juncal-Martínez, Silvia García-Méndez, Enrique Costa-Montenegro, Francisco Javier González-Castaño
- Receiver Interpretations of Emoji Functions: A Gender Perspective
  Susan C. Herring, Ashley R. Dainas
- Distant Supervision for Emotion Classification Task using emoji2emotion
  Aisulu Rakhmetullina, Dietrich Trautmann, Georg Groh

### Short Papers

- Emoji Grammar as Beat Gestures
  Gretchen McCulloch, Lauren Gawne
- Exploring Emoji Usage and Prediction Through a Temporal Variation Lens
  Francesco Barbieri, Luís Marujo, Pradeep Karuturi, William Brendel, Horacio Saggion

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