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| Title | Clustering Tweets using Wikipedia Concepts |
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| Authors | Guoyu Tang, Yunqing Xia, Weizhi Wang, Raymond Lau and Fang Zheng |
| Abstract | Two challenging issues are notable in tweet clustering. Firstly, the sparse data problem is serious since no tweet can be longer than 140 characters. Secondly, synonymy and polysemy are rather common because users intend to present a unique meaning with a great number of manners in tweets. Enlightened by the recent research which indicates Wikipedia is promising in representing text, we exploit Wikipedia concepts in representing tweets with concept vectors. We address the polysemy issue with a Bayesian model, and the synonymy issue by exploiting the Wikipedia redirections. To further alleviate the sparse data problem, we further make use of three types of out-links in Wikipedia. Evaluation on a twitter dataset shows that the concept model outperforms the traditional VSM model in tweet clustering. |
| Topics | Topic Detection & Tracking, Text Mining |
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Clustering Tweets using Wikipedia Concepts |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{TANG14.83, author = {Guoyu Tang and Yunqing Xia and Weizhi Wang and Raymond Lau and Fang Zheng}, title = {Clustering Tweets using Wikipedia Concepts}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |