On the Processing and Analysis of Microtexts: From Normalization to Semantics

Abstract

User-generated content published on microblogging social platforms constitutes an invaluable source of information for diverse purposes: health surveillance, business intelligence, political analysis, etc. We present an overview of our work on the field of microtext processing covering the entire pipeline: from input preprocessing to high-level text mining applications.

Keywords

• microtext normalization
• Language Identification
• sentiment analysis
• text preprocessing
• text mining
• semantics