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Emoji2018: 1st​ International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media
Co-located with The 12​th​ International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-18)
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June 25th, 2018. Stanford, California, USA.

Workshop Website - http://knoesis.org/resources/Emoji2018/
Paper Submission Website - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emoji2018


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Call for Papers
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With the rise of social media, emoji have become an extremely popular form of communication in social media. They are equally popular across major social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. As of 2017, Facebook and Facebook Messenger process over 60 million and 6 billion messages with emoji per day, respectively. In 2015, Instagram reported that nearly half of the photo comments posted on Instagram contains emoji and Instagram users tend to replace slang terms using emoji in photo comments. Another study revealed that emoji are slowly taking over emoticons on Twitter. Emoji data generated on social media sites have been utilized to study how emoji are used across different languages, cultures, user communities and as features to learn machine learning models to solve problems that span across many applications, including sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, and sarcasm detection. The ability to automatically process, derive meaning, and interpret text fused with emoji will be essential as society embraces emoji as a standard form of online communication. Thus, Emoji2018 tries to bring together computer and social science researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss and exchange ideas on understanding social, cultural, communicative, and linguistic roles of emoji while leading the discussions on building novel computational methods to understand and interpret them.

Emoji2018 is focused on research and discussions on challenges in emoji understanding, including but not limited to the following research directions.

Challenges in interpreting the meaning of an emoji in a message context
Novel methods for emoji sense disambiguation
Novel methods for calculating emoji similarity
Novel methods for emoji prediction
Challenges in using emoji as a language
Emoji’s effects on the evolution of language constructs used on social media such as emoticons and slang terms
Common emoji usages in social media
Cultural and community-specific emoji meaning evolution and interpretation
Why emoji meanings change over time and across communities?
Distinct social and communicative roles of emoji
How do people come to understandings of the meanings of the emoji?
Understanding sender intention and receiver interpretation of emoji
Emoji rendering and interface design challenges
Applications of emoji in social media
Research related to other pictorial representations such as emotes, customized emoji (e.g., bitmoji), and animated gifs.


We encourage submissions that utilize quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods to approach the above challenges as contributions. We invite regular technical papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo proposals (2 page). Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Submissions will be evaluated by the program committee based on the quality of the work and its fit to the workshop themes. All submissions should be double-blind and use the Emoji2018 LaTeX template (based on CEUR-WS templates) available at http://knoesis.org/resources/Emoji2018/Emoji2018_LaTeX_Template.zip for formatting. A high-resolution PDF of the paper should be uploaded to the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emoji2018 before the paper submission deadline. Emoji2018 Workshop proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.


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Important Dates
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Paper Submission: March 27th, 2018 (23:59, anywhere on earth).
Author Notification: April 3rd, 2018.
Camera-ready Paper Due: April 10th, 2018.
Workshop Day: June 25th, 2018.


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Organizing Committee
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Sanjaya Wijeratne - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Emre Kiciman - Information and Data Sciences Group, Microsoft Research AI, Redmond, USA
Horacio Saggion - Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Amit Sheth - Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, USA


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Program Committee
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Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Derek Doran, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University
Lakshika Balasuriya, Gracenote Inc.
Wei Ai, University of Michigan
Hannah Miller, University of Minnesota
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Francesco Barbieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Miguel Ballesteros, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Rachael Tatman, Kaggle
Tyler Schnoebelen, Integrate.ai
Petra Kralj Novak, Jožef Stefan Institute
Ian Wood, The Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Bjarke Felbo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University
Sarasi Lalithsena, IBM Almaden Research Center
Francesco Ronzano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra


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Contact
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Sanjaya Wijeratne - sanjaya@knoesis.org | Emre Kiciman - emrek@microsoft.com | Horacio Saggion - horacio.saggion@upf.edu | Amit Sheth - amit@knoesis.org