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With the emergence and widespread use of emojis in social network messages, some authors have discussed the possibility of grammar related to emoticons. In this field, some authors believe that emojis can be used to write sentences; others believe that emojis are just digital gestures without relevant grammar. This research proposes a model to analyse the co-occurrence of emoji in Twitter messages and the semantic context of using these sequences. The way is to understand whether these co-occurrences are meaningful, whether they vary from topic to topic, and whether they will change over time. The co-occurrence of emoticons will be stored in the graph database. Key phrases will be extracted and stored along with the tweet in Elasticsearch’s database from the tweet’s text. The tweets to be analysed are related to Brexit, the U.S. election and Covid-19. We will identify prominent emojis, the most commonly used emojis that appear simultaneously and are not repeated, and the associated key phrases for each discussion topic. The study outlined in this paper aims to understand if there is meaning in co-occurrences of emojis - sequences of two emojis - in messages exchanged on social networks as a starting point for a future study on syntax in emojis.
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Pereira, A., Pestana, G. (2022). Is There Meaning in the Emoji Sequences Used on Social Media?. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 469. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04819-7_28
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