A feasibility study on extracting twitter users'interests using NLP tools for serendipitous connections

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 910-915

  Piao, Scott ^a   Whittle, Jon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interest extraction; Named entity; Natural langauge processing; Serendipity; Social computing; Twitter analysis

Indexed keywords

DAILY LIVES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INFORMATION SOURCES; NAMED ENTITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP TOOLS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REFERENCE SOURCE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SERENDIPITY; SOCIAL COMPUTING; TWITTER ANALYSIS; USER'S INTEREST; USERS' INTERESTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856192126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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