Semantic Annotation for Microblog Topics Using Wikipedia Temporal Information
Conference proceedings article
Publication Details
Author list: Tran T, Tran N, Hadgu AT, Jäschke R
Book title in source: Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Publication year: 2015
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
Abstract
In this paper we study the problem of semantic annotation for a trending hashtag which is the crucial step towards analyzing user behavior in social media, yet has been largely unexplored. We tackle the problem via linking to entities from Wikipedia. We incorporate the social aspects of trending hashtags by identifying prominent entities for the annotation so as to maximize the information spreading in entity networks. We exploit temporal dynamics of entities in Wikipedia, namely Wikipedia edits and page views to improve the annotation quality. Our experiments show that we significantly outperform the established methods in tweet annotation.
