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Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Third Edition
Anna Atefeh Farzindar, University of Southern California
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication. The newer research on
language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing on the latter’s impact on our daily lives, both on a
personal and a professional level. Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most promising avenues for social
media data processing. It is a scientific challenge to develop powerful methods and algorithms that extract relevant
information from a large volume of data coming from multiple sources and languages in various formats or in free form.
This book will discuss the challenges in analyzing social media texts in contrast with traditional documents.
Research methods in information extraction, automatic categorization and clustering, automatic summarization
and indexing, and statistical machine translation need to be adapted to a new kind of data. This book reviews the
current research on NLP tools and methods for processing the non-traditional information from social media data
that is available in large amounts, and it shows how innovative NLP approaches can integrate appropriate linguistic
information in various fields such as social media monitoring, health care, and business intelligence. The book further
covers the existing evaluation metrics for NLP and social media applications and the new efforts in evaluation
campaigns or shared tasks on new datasets collected from social media. Such tasks are organized by the Association
for Computational Linguistics (such as SemEval tasks), the National Institute of Standards and Technology via the
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) and the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), or the Conference and Labs of the
Evaluation Forum (CLEF).
Natural language processing for social media_Atefeh Farzindar; Diana Inkpen.pdf