(22) Research on Emoticons: Review of the Field and Proposal of Research Framework
Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki and Yoshio Momouchi
言語処理学会第17回年次大会発表論文集，pp.1159-1162，2011-3
Emoticons are string of symbols representing body language in text-based communication. In Natural Language Processing (NLP) emoticons have been considered as unnatural language entities. We argue that, in over 40-year- long history of text based communication, emoticons have gained a status of an indispensable means of support for text based messages. This makes them fully a part of Natural rather than Unnatural Language Processing (UNLP). We argue further that the reason the emoticons have been considered as a part of UNLP lies in the lack of sufficient methods for the analysis of emoticons. We propose including emoticon processing in a set of frequent language processing challenges. We mention our state of the art system for extraction and analysis of Japanese emoticons.
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