A look into Twitter hashtag discovery and generation
Eric Krokos, Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan · 2014
Twitter is a micro-blogging site that allows users and companies to post brief pieces of information called 'Tweets'. Some of the tweets contain keywords such as 'Hashtags' denoted with a '#', essentially one word summaries of either the topic or emotion of the tweet. The goal of this paper is to examine an approach to perform hashtag discovery on Twitter posts that do not contain user labeled hashtags. The process described in this paper is geared to be as automatic as possible, taking advantage of web information, sentiment analysis, geographic location, basic filtering and classification processes, to generate hashtags for tweets. Hashtags provide users and search queries a fast and simple basis to filter and find information that they are interested in.