Conferencing in 140 characters

Academic Research in 140 Characters or Less

A popular social media topic for researchers, practitioners, educators, students from various disciplines is the use of microblogging in academic research. This paper analyses ways in which educators relate to this new web2.0 tool in the research activities they carry out. The methodology puts forward an exploratory approach of the universe of microblogging as a social media tool used for schol...

Information Overload, 140 Characters at a Time

IITPSemEval: Sentiment Discovery from 140 Characters

This paper presents an overview of the system developed and submitted as a part of our participation to the SemEval-2015 Task 10 that deals with Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. We build a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based supervised learning model for Subtask A (term level task) and Subtask B (message level task). We also participate in Subtask E viz., determining degree of polarity, and build ...

Named Entity Recognition in 140 Characters or Less

In this paper, we explore the problem of recognizing named entities in microposts, a genre with notoriously little context surrounding each named entity and inconsistent use of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling conventions by authors. In spite of the challenges associated with information extraction from microposts, it remains an increasingly important genre. This paper present...

Describing the Web in less than 140 Characters

Links curation, i.e. finding relevant information within the World-Wide-Web and its ever-growing amount of content is a crucial problem for information access. Hyperlinks recommendation has been for a long time a common way to share references between web users, be it by e-mail exchanges, instant messages or forums. We explore in this paper how Social Media extend this recommendation practice b...