People tweet more than 100 Million times daily, yielding a noisy, informal, but sometimes informative corpus of 140-character messages that mirrors the zeitgeist in an unprecedent...
Many private and/or public organizations have been reported to create and monitor targeted Twitter streams to collect and understand users’ opinions about the organizations. Tar...
Twitter, a micro-blogging service, provides users with a framework for writing brief, often-noisy postings about their lives. These posts are called "Tweets." In this pa...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Named entity recognition studies the problem of locating and classifying parts of free text into a set of predefined categories. Although extensive research has focused on the de...