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Emojitaliano: A Social and Crowdsourcing Experiment of the Creation of a Visual International Language

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Abstract

Inspired by the historical models of artificial and auxiliary languages, Emojitaliano is the result of a social and crowdsourcing experiment which was conducted by a group of seventeen translators, followers of the “Scritture brevi” blog, and led to the creation of an international language based on emojis. The experiment was carried out during 2016 on Twitter in the framework of the translation into emoji of Pinocchio, the famous Italian tale. Emojitaliano consists of 1) a repertoire of stable and coherent lexical correspondences between the emoji UNICODE set and the Italian language and 2) a set of predefined simplified rules agreed on during the translation process. Emojitaliano is stored in @Emojitalianobot, an online tool and digital environment for translation into emoji, running on Telegram, the popular instant messaging platform. It is the first open and free Emoji-Italian translation bot based on UNICODE descriptions, which contains a glossary with all the senses assigned by the translators to emojis during the translation process of the famous Italian novel. This paper presents the translation projects of Emojitaliano, the background and its lexicon and grammar and finally Emojitalianobot.

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Notes

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    https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-counts.html.

  2. 2.

    https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html.

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    https://emojitracker.com/.

  4. 4.

    “About Emoji Dick,” 2009, at http://www.emojidick.com, accessed 17 November 2017.

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    Sally Law, 2009. “The revolution will be crowdsourced (and cute),” New Yorker (22 September), at https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-revolution-will-be-crowdsourced-and-cute, accessed 5 December 2020.

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    http://www.joehale.info/visual-poetry/one-hundred-thousand-emojis.html.

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    https://twitter.com/emojibama.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jan/20/-sp-state-of-the-union-2015-address-obama-emoji.

  8. 8.

    http://www.bibleemoji.com/.

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    https://twitter.com/BibleEmoji.

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    https://firstmonday.org/article/view/9395/7567.

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    http://www.apicelibri.it/catalogo/pinocchio-in-emojitaliano/351?path=catalogo; the book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.it/Pinocchio-emojitaliano-Francesca-Chiusaroli/dp/8899176442/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1608387789&refinements=p_27%3AFrancesca+Chiusaroli&s=books&sr=1-1.

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    https://emojipedia.org/faq/#how-many.

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    https://emojipedia.org/symbols/.

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    https://emojipedia.org/search/?q=standing.

  15. 15.

    https://emojipedia.org/information/.

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    https://emojipedia.org/person-standing/.

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    https://emojipedia.org/headphone/.

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    https://emojipedia.org/old-key/.

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Acknowledgements

Our thanks go to the Italian translators of the Scritture Brevi community for their contributions. The paper has been written by J. Monti, who also took care of the theoretical framework of the automatic translation of the project. Sections 3 and 4.1 are based on the Introduction to [1] by Chiusaroli, who took care of the theoretical framework of the emojilingua and coordinated the translations on social media. Section 5 is based on [6]; the bot has been developed by F. Sangati. The Emojitaliano project and the full text of the present paper are shared by all authors.

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  2. University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

    Francesca Chiusaroli

  3. OIST Graduate University, Onna, Japan

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Monti, J., Chiusaroli, F., Sangati, F. (2021). Emojitaliano: A Social and Crowdsourcing Experiment of the Creation of a Visual International Language. In: Soares, M.M., Rosenzweig, E., Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: UX Research and Design. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78221-4_29

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