Text Analytics of Social Media: Sentiment Analysis, Event Detection and Summarization

Authors

Chao ShenFollow

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Computer Science

First Advisor's Name

Tao Li

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Second Advisor's Name

Shu-Ching Chen

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Third Advisor's Name

Debra VanderMeer

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Fourth Advisor's Name

Jinpeng Wei

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Fifth Advisor's Name

Bogdan Carbunar

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Keywords

Text Mining, Data Mining on Social Media, Information Retrieval

Date of Defense

10-31-2014

Abstract

In the last decade, large numbers of social media services have emerged and been widely used in people's daily life as important information sharing and acquisition tools. With a substantial amount of user-contributed text data on social media, it becomes a necessity to develop methods and tools for text analysis for this emerging data, in order to better utilize it to deliver meaningful information to users.

Previous work on text analytics in last several decades is mainly focused on traditional types of text like emails, news and academic literatures, and several critical issues to text data on social media have not been well explored: 1) how to detect sentiment from text on social media; 2) how to make use of social media's real-time nature; 3) how to address information overload for flexible information needs.

In this dissertation, we focus on these three problems. First, to detect sentiment of text on social media, we propose a non-negative matrix tri-factorization (tri-NMF) based dual active supervision method to minimize human labeling efforts for the new type of data. Second, to make use of social media's real-time nature, we propose approaches to detect events from text streams on social media. Third, to address information overload for flexible information needs, we propose two summarization framework, dominating set based summarization framework and learning-to-rank based summarization framework. The dominating set based summarization framework can be applied for different types of summarization problems, while the learning-to-rank based summarization framework helps utilize the existing training data to guild the new summarization tasks. In addition, we integrate these techneques in an application study of event summarization for sports games as an example of how to better utilize social media data.

Identifier

FI14110776

Recommended Citation

Shen, Chao, "Text Analytics of Social Media: Sentiment Analysis, Event Detection and Summarization" (2014). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1739.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1739