Exploring Twitter Hashtags
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چکیده
Twitter messages often contain so-called hashtags to denote keywords related to them. Using a dataset of 29 million messages, I explore relations among these hashtags with respect to co-occurrences. Furthermore, I present an attempt to classify hashtags into five intuitive classes, using a machine-learning approach. The overall outcome is an interactive Web application to explore Twitter hashtags.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1111.6553 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011