An analysis of the user occupational class through Twitter content

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 1754-1764

  Preot'iuc Pietro, Daniel ^a   Lampos, Vasileios ^b   Aletras, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DOWNSTREAM APPLICATIONS; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; NON-LINEAR METHODS; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXTUAL CONTENT; WORD-CLUSTERS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84943802434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-1169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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