论文标题
关于表情符号的无上下文歧义
On the Context-Free Ambiguity of Emoji
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论文摘要
表情符号带有预先包装的语义，使其成为创建新形式的更易于访问的通信的绝佳候选人。然而，对于人类在文本上下文之外，人类同意这种表情符号语义的多少知之甚少。因此，我们收集了一个众包数据集的单词表情符号描述，其中1,289个表情符号向没有周围文本的参与者提出。然后对表情符号及其解释进行了歧义。我们发现，每个表情符号有30个注释，16个表情符号（1.2％）是完全明确的，而55个表情符号（4.3％）是如此模棱两可，以至于它们的描述与随机选择的描述没有区别。大多数研究的表情符号都分布在两个极端之间。此外，研究了不同类型的表情符号的歧义，我们发现一个重要因素是表情符号具有嵌入式象征意义的程度，该象征意义来自已建立的符号代码。我们通过讨论设计含义来结束。
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 unambiguous, whereas 55 emojis (4.3%) are so ambiguous that their descriptions are indistinguishable from randomly chosen descriptions. Most of studied emojis are spread out between the two extremes. Furthermore, investigating the ambiguity of different types of emojis, we find that an important factor is the extent to which an emoji has an embedded symbolical meaning drawn from an established code-book of symbols. We conclude by discussing design implications.
