Community-based classification of noun phrases in Twitter

• Main Authors: CHUA, Freddy Chong Tat, COHEN, William W., BETTERRIDGE, Justin, Ee-peng LIM
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Named entities; Noun phrases; Social media; Twitter; Computer Sciences; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3517; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4518/viewcontent/C32___Community_Based_Classification_of_Noun_Phrases_in_Twitter__CIKM2012_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many event monitoring systems rely on counting known keywords in streaming text data to detect sudden spikes in frequency. But the dynamic and conversational nature of Twitter makes it hard to select known keywords for monitoring. Here we consider a method of automatically finding noun phrases (NPs)...