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Bridging Emoji Gaps: LLMs for Cross-Generational Online Communication between Parents and Children

2025· article· W7128620231 on OpenAlexaff
Yuanzhe Jin, Mingjiong Zhang

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Communication and Language
Canadian institutionsEducation and Early Childhood Development
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmojiInstant messagingBridging (networking)Computer-mediated communicationMeaning (existential)Focus (optics)

Abstract

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With the development of instant messaging tools, an increasing number of emojis are being used in daily online communication. Different individuals may have varying interpretations of the same emoji or other "visual symbols". These differences in understanding can sometimes lead to difficulties in comprehending the meaning of conversations. Previous research has shown that there are widespread differences in emoji usage habits across different age groups. In this paper, we focus on the differences in the understanding of various emojis between parents and children when communicating through instant messaging tools. To help parents better communicate with children, we introduce large language models (LLMs) to analyze conversations, aiming to assist parents and children in better understanding their online interactions. Through the experiment and evaluation, LLMs show the ability to be a solution for improved cross-generational communication for emoji understanding.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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