Topical Keyphrase Extraction from Twitter

Xin Zhao1,  Jing Jiang2,  Jing He1,  Yang Song1,  Palakorn Achanauparp2,  Ee-Peng Lim2,  Xiaoming Li1
1Peking University, 2Singapore Management University


Abstract

Summarizing and analyzing Twitter content is an important and challenging task. In this paper, we propose to extract topical keyphrases as one way to summarize Twitter. We propose a context-sensitive topical PageRank for keyword ranking and probabilistic scoring function that considers both relevance and interestingness of keyphrases for keyphrase ranking. We evalaute our proposed methods in a large Twitter data set. Experiments show that these methods are very effective for topical keyphrase extraction.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1039.pdf