Machine learning to find the meaning of emojis

[Frédéric Grosshans]

The following post, by Instagram engineering team, might be interesting 
for the people in this list who are interested in the emoji use in the 
wild. It’s an attempt to algorithmically define teh meaning of emojis as 
they are used on instagram .

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701472/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji

I find the synonymity of �� with #fingerscrossed quite funny but 
understandable.

      Frédéric

PS: Found via “All Things Linguistic” aka αθλ 
http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/124609017512/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji 
. By the way, this blog post contains the first emojis in italics I ever 
saw.