--- title: "Phillip Smith — author profile and papers · Sentiment & emotion" description: "Phillip Smith, University of Birmingham: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Phillip Smith # Phillip Smith Phillip Smith has 4 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Grammatical error correction & learner language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/); often with [Robert Hendley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-hendley/), [Shatha Ali A. Hakami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shatha-ali-a-hakami/). 4 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5054204504) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9468-4383) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5054204504) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5054204504) · [140 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5054204504&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8257](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8257) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Phillip+Smith) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Phillip+Smith) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Phillip+Smith) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Phillip+Smith) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Birmingham** Birmingham · United Kingdom 2011–2025 · 18 papersEducation 2011–2016 · PhD, School of Computer ScienceEmployment since 2017 · Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-birmingham/) · [🎓**Coventry University** Coventry · United Kingdom 2014–2016Employment 2014–2016 · Researcher, School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/coventry-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/year/2023/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Arabic Emoji Sentiment Lexicon (Arab-ESL): A Comparison between Arabic and European Emoji Sentiment Lexicons](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2021-arabic-emoji-sentiment-lexicon-arab/)** *(2021 · 18 citations)* Emoji are often assumed to carry the same meaning everywhere. The authors test whether this holds for sentiment by comparing Arabic and European usage. Existing emoji sentiment resources were almost entirely non-Arabic, so they first built Arab-ESL. It is an Arabic emoji sentiment lexicon of 1034 emoji, derived from… 2. **[Emoji Sentiment Roles for Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study in Arabic Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2022-emoji-sentiment-roles-sentiment-analysis/)** *(2022 · 12 citations)* The paper asks how emoji change the sentiment of the Arabic text they appear in, given that one emoji can push a message in different directions depending on context. 3. **[ArSarcasMoji Dataset: The Emoji Sentiment Roles in Arabic Ironic Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2023-arsarcasmoji-dataset-emoji-sentiment-roles/)** *(2023 · 3 citations)* Arabic irony and sarcasm research has usually removed emoji during preprocessing, on the assumption that they complicate an already morphologically rich language. 4. **[A Context-free Arabic Emoji Sentiment Lexicon (CF-Arab-ESL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2022-context-free-arabic-emoji-sentiment/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* Emoji are widely used as sentiment signals in sentiment analysis, but their reading varies from person to person, and cultural background is a major source of that variation. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Arabic Emoji Sentiment Lexicon (Arab-ESL): A Comparison between Arabic and European Emoji Sentiment Lexicons](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2021-arabic-emoji-sentiment-lexicon-arab/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Shatha Ali A. Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith*2021 · 18 citations* 2. **[Emoji Sentiment Roles for Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study in Arabic Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2022-emoji-sentiment-roles-sentiment-analysis/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Shatha Ali A. Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith*2022 · 12 citations* 3. **[Comparative Evaluation of Machine Translation Models Using Human-Translated Social Media Posts as References: Human-Translated Datasets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.loresmt-1.1/) Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025) · no summary yet**Shareefa Ahmed Al Amer, Mark G. Lee, Phillip Smith*2025 · 3 citations* 4. **[ArSarcasMoji Dataset: The Emoji Sentiment Roles in Arabic Ironic Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2023-arsarcasmoji-dataset-emoji-sentiment-roles/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Shatha Ali A. Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith*2023 · 3 citations* 5. **[A Context-free Arabic Emoji Sentiment Lexicon (CF-Arab-ESL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hakami-2022-context-free-arabic-emoji-sentiment/) [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/)**Shatha Ali A. Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith*2022 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Robert Hendley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-hendley/) ×4 - [Shatha Ali A. Hakami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shatha-ali-a-hakami/) ×4 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) ×2: [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/), [WANLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/) - Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phillip-smith/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026