On the Context-Free Ambiguity of Emoji. (arXiv:2201.06302v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Emojis come with prepacked semantics making them great candidates to create
new forms of more accessible communications. Yet, little is known about how
much of this emojis semantic is agreed upon by humans, outside of textual
contexts. Thus, we collected a crowdsourced dataset of one-word emoji
descriptions for 1,289 emojis presented to participants with no surrounding
text. The emojis and their interpretations were then examined for ambiguity. We
find that with 30 annotations per emoji, 16 emojis (1.2%) are completely …

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