• DocumentCode
    660928
  • Title

    Detecting Life Events in Feeds from Twitter

  • Author

    Di Eugenio, Barbara ; Green, Nick ; Subba, Rajen

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    16-18 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    274
  • Lastpage
    277
  • Abstract
    Short posts on micro-blogs are characterized by high ambiguity and non-standard language. We focus on detecting life events from such micro-blogs, a type of event which have not been paid much attention so far. We discuss the corpus we assembled and our experiments. Simpler models based on unigrams perform better than models that include history, number of retweets and semantic roles.
  • Keywords
    social networking (online); social sciences computing; Twitter; life events detection; microblogs; unigrams; Accuracy; Employment; History; Interviews; Semantics; Support vector machines; Twitter; Machine Learning; Semantic Role Labelling; Social Media; Text Classification; Twitter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Irvine, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSC.2013.54
  • Filename
    6693529