The Dango team (many of the folks who made Minuum) used a recurrent neural network to perform a deep learning task (it’s just something you can do now) examining how emoji are used.

Initially, Dango provided only very simple emoji predictions, such as the ones Apple plans to offer: Type “happy” and it predicted a smiling face РЯШР; ...

Hands-On With Dango: When Emoji And GIF Prediction Becomes A Fun Science. By Rita El Khoury. Published Jun 13, 2016. Follow ... That's where Dango swoops in to provide a better approach.

Exciting news for emoji users out there! The Dango app has been built specifically for your daily messaging needs, suggesting related emojis (and even GIFS!) to capture the essence of your messages.