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AIRS 2014: Information Retrieval Technology pp 268–279Cite as

Extracting Interest Tags from Twitter User Biographies

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Twitter, one of the most popular social media platforms, has been studied from different angles. One of the important sources of information in Twitter is users’ biographies, which are short self-introductions written by users in free form. Biographies often describe users’ background and interests. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has not been much work trying to extract information from Twitter biographies. In this work, we study how to extract information revealing users’ personal interests from Twitter biographies. A sequential labeling model is trained with automatically constructed labeled data. The popular patterns expressing user interests are extracted and analyzed. We also study the connection between interest tags extracted from user biographies and tweet content, and find that there is a weak linkage between them, suggesting that biographies can potentially serve as a complimentary source of information to tweets.

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  1. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

    Ying Ding & Jing Jiang

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  1. Institute of Visual Informatic, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

  2. Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Nazlena Mohamad Ali

  3. Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah

  4. Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, 9, Dublin, Ireland

    Alan F. Smeaton

  5. Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, 4001, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Peter Bruza

  6. Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    Zainab Abu Bakar  & Nursuriati Jamil  & 

  7. Cyber Security Center, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Kem Sungai Besi, 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok

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Ding, Y., Jiang, J. (2014). Extracting Interest Tags from Twitter User Biographies. In: Jaafar, A., et al. Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8870. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12844-3_23

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