Considered the widespread diffusion of emojis as visual devices useful to provide an additional layer of meaning to Social Media messages, on one hand, and the unquestionable role of Twitter as one of the most important Social Media platforms, on the other, we propose the Italian Emoji Prediction task (ITAmoji Task).

We invite participants to submit systems designed to predict, given a ​tweet in Italian​, its most likely associated emoji​. We will challenge systems to predict emojis among a wide and heterogeneous emoji space. As for the experimental setting, for simplicity purposes, we will consider tweets including only one emoji. After removing the emoji from the tweet, we will ask users to predict it.