Social Media and Text Analytics

This lecture series was presented by Tim Baldwin at the International Summer School on Web Science and Technology in 2016. It revolves largely (and selfishly) around his personal research (with various collaborators) on social media, but includes various pointers to prominent research in each topic area. The slides, along with pointers to papers each lecture builds off, are provided below:

• Lecture 1: Overview; Language Identification; Lexical Normalisation
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• Lecture 2: User Geolocation; Twitter POS Tagging, Parsing and NER
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• Lecture 3: Trend Analysis; Semantic and Discourse Analysis of Social Media; Restrictions and Ethics of Social Media Usage
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