One emoji, many meanings: A corpus for the prediction and disambiguation of emoji sense

Matthew Shardlow, Luciano Gerber, Raheel Nawaz

Abstract: Highlights•We demonstrate that emoji are polysemous.•We have developed a new corpus to help in the task of emoji sense prediction.•Our experiments show that it is possible to predict the sense of an emoji.•We extend our experiments to show that emoji sense is a useful feature in the emoji prediction task.