[Colloquium] REMINDER: Research at TTIC: Kevin Gimpel

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday, March 28th at Noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526

Who:       Kevin Gimpel, TTIC

Title:       Natural Language Processing for Twitter

Abstract:

The popularity of Twitter and other social media platforms has yielded vast
amounts of "conversational" text in electronic form.  Researchers have
tried to use this data to predict flu outbreaks, elections, movie revenues,
public approval ratings, consumer confidence indicators, and more.  All of
these applications require some level of natural language processing on the
raw text from Twitter.

In this talk I'll describe our work on entry-level NLP for Twitter,
including the design of a part-of-speech tag set, its annotation, and an
automatic tagger.  The tagger produces state-of-the-art results on several
datasets of conversational text by using word representations trained on a
large set of unlabeled tweets.  I'll also briefly discuss our work on using
tweets to predict which team to bet on in NFL games.

This is joint work with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon.


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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Coordinator,
Bookkeeper
773-834-1757
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