Learning Emoji Representations from Observed Usage
Nowadays it is hard to imagine daily communication without emojis like 😄, 😬 or ❤️. These cute pictograms are not only ideal for expressing emotions, they are also standardized. This makes them ideal for analysis. However, before classical analyses such as clustering can be performed, a numerical representation is required. A simple method would be one-hot-encoding, which would be obvious considering the very limited vocabulary (there are only a few thousand emojis)....