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First Slovenian-Emoji dictionary released

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The first Slovenian-Emoji dictionary was released on 17 July, coinciding with World Emoji Day. It is now available to users of the EmojiWorldBot, a free tool built for the Telegram instant messaging platform.

EmojiWorldBot, released by the Kamusi Project Online Living Dictionary, allows the user to search for an appropriate emoji in more than 70 languages. It was released in April, and is being constantly upgraded.

For World Emoji Day, the platform was opened to 50 more languages, resulting in the first effective technology for communicating among speakers of more than 120 languages.

The emoji dictionary is accompanied by a game, in which users can identify new words marking the emojis and effectively help build the language database. Another game, enabling searches among all the languages in the system, is in the works. It aims to prevent the interference of English.

According to the director of the Kamusi Project, Martin Benjamin, emojis can help clear up the confusion caused by homonyms.

The players can verify a link between an emoji and a word, and in doing so, they contribute to the improvement of translation from Slovenian into any other language.

The dictionary is currently connected with the Telegram platform, which the Kamusi Project wants to use to perfect it before expanding to other platforms, such as Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Slack and Google Hangouts.

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