[PDF][PDF] From Puppy to Maturity: Experiences in Developing Terrier.

C Macdonald, R McCreadie, RLT Santos… - OSIR …, 2012 - opensearchlab.otago.ac.nz
The Terrier information retrieval (IR) platform, maintained by the University of Glasgow, has
been open sourced since 2004. Open source IR platforms are vital to the research …

[PDF][PDF] Language identification for creating language-specific twitter collections

S Bergsma, P McNamee, M Bagdouri… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
Social media services such as Twitter offer an immense volume of real-world linguistic data.
We explore the use of Twitter to obtain authentic user-generated text in low-resource …

[PDF][PDF] Using conceptual class attributes to characterize social media users

S Bergsma, B Van Durme - … of the 51st Annual Meeting of the …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
We describe a novel approach for automatically predicting the hidden demographic
properties of social media users. Building on prior work in common-sense knowledge …

[PDF][PDF] Keyword Detection Techniques: A Comprehensive Study.

ZA Shaikh - Engineering, Technology & Applied Science …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Automatic identification of influential segments from a large amount of data is an important
part of topic detection and tracking (TDT). This can be done using keyword identification via …

[PDF][PDF] Classifying short text in social media: Twitter as case study

F Kateb, J Kalita - International Journal of Computer Applications, 2015 - researchgate.net
With the huge growth of social media, especially with 500 million Twitter messages being
posted per day, analyzing these messages has caught intense interest of researchers …

Temporal feedback for tweet search with non-parametric density estimation

M Efron, J Lin, J He, A De Vries - … of the 37th international ACM SIGIR …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
This paper investigates the temporal cluster hypothesis: in search tasks where time plays an
important role, do relevant documents tend to cluster together in time? We explore this …

On sparsity and drift for effective real-time filtering in microblogs

MD Albakour, C Macdonald, I Ounis - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we approach the problem of real-time filtering in the Twitter Microblogging
platform. We adapt an effective traditional news filtering technique, which uses a text …

Engaging and maintaining a sense of being informed: Understanding the tasks motivating twitter search

D Elsweiler, M Harvey - Journal of the Association for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Micro‐blogging services such as Twitter represent constantly evolving, user‐generated
sources of information. Previous studies show that users search such content regularly but …

Discovering filter keywords for company name disambiguation in twitter

D Spina, J Gonzalo, E Amigó - Expert Systems with Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
A major problem in monitoring the online reputation of companies, brands, and other entities
is that entity names are often ambiguous (apple may refer to the company, the fruit, the …

Fast candidate generation for real-time tweet search with bloom filter chains

N Asadi, J Lin - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2013 - dl.acm.org
The rise of social media and other forms of user-generated content have created the
demand for real-time search: against a high-velocity stream of incoming documents, users …