SemEval 2018 Task 2: Multilingual Emoji Prediction

This is the first shared task on Multilingual Emoji Prediction, organized as part of SemEval 2018. Given the text of a tweet, the task consists of predicting the most likely emoji to be used along  such tweet. The competition is divided into two tasks respectively dealing with the prediction of the emoji associated to English and Spanish tweets. The motivation for providing a multilingual setting stems from previous findings about the idiosyncrasy of use of emojis across languages: one emoji may be used with completely different meanings depending not only on the language of the speaker, but also on regional dialects.