Emojinize: Enriching Any Text with Emoji Translations
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03857v2
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 14:09:00 GMT
- Title: Emojinize: Enriching Any Text with Emoji Translations
- Authors: Lars Henning Klein, Roland Aydin, Robert West
- Abstract summary: Emojinize is a method for translating arbitrary text phrases into sequences of one or more emoji without requiring human input.
By leveraging the power of large language models, Emojinize can choose appropriate emoji by disambiguating based on context.
Emojinize's translations increase the human guessability of masked words by 55%, whereas human-picked emoji translations do so by only 29%.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: Emoji have become ubiquitous in written communication, on the Web and beyond.
They can emphasize or clarify emotions, add details to conversations, or simply
serve decorative purposes. This casual use, however, barely scratches the
surface of the expressive power of emoji. To further unleash this power, we
present Emojinize, a method for translating arbitrary text phrases into
sequences of one or more emoji without requiring human input. By leveraging the
power of large language models, Emojinize can choose appropriate emoji by
disambiguating based on context (eg, cricket-bat vs bat) and can express
complex concepts compositionally by combining multiple emoji (eq, "Emojinize"
is translated to input-latin-letters right-arrow grinning-face). In a cloze
test--based user study, we show that Emojinize's emoji translations increase
the human guessability of masked words by 55%, whereas human-picked emoji
translations do so by only 29%. These results suggest that emoji provide a
sufficiently rich vocabulary to accurately translate a wide variety of words.
Moreover, annotating words and phrases with Emojinize's emoji translations
opens the door to numerous downstream applications, including children learning
how to read, adults learning foreign languages, and text understanding for
people with learning disabilities.
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