B-TTDb: A Database of Turkish Tweets for Predicting the Top One Hundred Emojis

Abstract

Emoji prediction is an important research task that focuses on finding the most appropriate emoji(s) quickly and effortlessly for a specific text. Now that Turkish is on the list of the top 20 most spoken languages in the world and there are a considerable number of Turkish-speaking social media users, studying emoji prediction in Turkish holds significant value. In this study, a Turkish tweets database, named Bitirim's Turkish Tweets Database (B-TTDb), was constructed for academic and industrial studies based on the prediction of the top 100 emojis. B-TTDb consists of four datasets. The first dataset includes raw tweets, the second dataset is the organized version of the first dataset, the third dataset is the pre-processed version of the second dataset, and the last one is the organized version of the third dataset. The last one is the final version and it is named Bitirim's Dataset (B-D). It includes a total of 158,201 unique tweets belonging to the top 100 emoji classes. For database validation, experiments were conducted on B-D with popular machine learning algorithms for the top 10, 20, 50, and 100 emojis. This study could be considered as the first study that contributes to the literature by the first validated large database of Turkish tweets that includes such a large number of emojis. In addition, B-TTDb could be a basis as well as motivation for various further studies.