The upside-down face emoji is headed for trouble. Approved as part of Unicode 8.0, it rolled out to iOS 9.1 and Android Marshmallow earlier this year, and in the past three months, the meaning has ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Millennials, rejoice: A winking-face emoji is worth a slew of ironic words. The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way as it does verbal banter ...

Emoji-Filled Mean Tweets Help Scientists Create Sarcasm-Detecting Bot That Could Uncover Hate Speech Published Aug 07, 2017 at 12:00 PM EDT Updated Aug 07, 2017 at 12:42 PM EDT A selection of emojis.

If you have a hard time identifying when someone is being sarcastic on Twitter, chances are there’s an algorithm better at it than you are. The algorithm called DeepMoji, created at the ...

Researchers at MIT Are Using Emoji to Teach Software Sarcasm and Slang. By Ann-Marie Alcántara. Updated on Aug 18, 2017 at 10:30 AM. Sometimes when you're texting or chatting, words just don't ...

A perennial problem in human-computer interaction is getting machines to understand emotional concepts like sarcasm, irony and understatement. Now, however, researchers at the MIT Media Lab may ...

It's notoriously tough to translate sarcasm into the written word, but with the help of technology and science, it soon might get a little bit easier to tell when someone's being sarcastic with ...

If you have a hard time identifying when someone is being sarcastic on Twitter, chances are there’s an algorithm better at it than you are. The algorithm called DeepMoji, created at the ...