An unsupervised multilingual approach for online social media topic identification

• Main Authors: LO, Siaw Ling, CHIONG, Raymond, CORNFORTH, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: topic identification; multilingual analysis; unsupervised learning; social media; Computer Engineering; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4873; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5876/viewcontent/An_unsupervised___PV.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Social media data can be valuable in many ways. However, the vast amount of content shared and the linguistic variants of languages used on social media are making it very challenging for high-value topics to be identified. In this paper, we present an unsupervised multilingual approach for identify...