emoji2vec: Learning Emoji Representations from their Description

Understand

Many current natural language processing applications for social media rely on representation learning and utilize pre-trained word embeddings.

• There currently exist several publicly-available, pre-trained sets of word embeddings, but they contain few or no emoji representations even as emoji usage in social media has increased.
• In this paper we release emoji2vec, pre-trained embeddings for all Unicode emoji which are learned from their description in the Unicode emoji standard.
• The resulting emoji embeddings can be readily used in downstream social natural language processing applications alongside word2vec.