1 / 9

Argumentation over social media – a case study of twitter

Argumentation over social media – a case study of twitter. M. Usman Nisar Ugur Kursuncu. Argument Disputed argument if some sources suggest that the argument is true and also others that suggest it is false E.g., New research area

aquene
Download Presentation

Argumentation over social media – a case study of twitter

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Argumentation over social media – a case study of twitter M. UsmanNisar UgurKursuncu Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  2. Argument • Disputed argument • if some sources suggest that the argument is true and also others that suggest it is false • E.g., • New research area • Some work done on extracting conflicting topics on world wide web Background Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  3. Related Work (Approach 1) Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  4. Related Work (Approach 2) Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  5. Our Goal: To automatically extract arguments from tweets • Twitter • Social networking service • More than 300 million users • More than 300 million tweets per day Our goal Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  6. 1. Gather twitter data • Standardize • 2. Search for the lexical patterns in tweets to find arguments. Patterns like … • Misconception that Road map Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  7. Streaming API • Our downloader: 5 million+ tweets • Observations: • Noise • Sentences are not well-formed • Many languages Twitter Data Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  8. Search for lexical patterns • “the misconception that” • “the myth that” • Issues we foresee: • Data noise • Data might be a limiting factor “Our Approach” Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

  9. Questions? Advanced Information Systems - Term Project Spring 2012

More Related