Segmenting Twitter Hashtags
Jack Reuter, Jhonata Pereira-Martins, Jugal Kumar Kalita · International Journal on Natural Language Computing · 2016
Social Media Posts On Platforms Such As Twitter Or Instagram Use Hashtags, Which Are Author-Created Labels Representing Topics Or Themes, Toassist In Categorization Of Posts And Searches For Posts Of Interest. The Structural Analysis Of Hashtags Is Necessary As Precursor To Understandingtheir Meanings.This Paper Describes Our Work On Segmenting Nondelimited Strings Of Hashtag-Type English Text.We Adapt And Extend Methods Used Mostly In Non-English Context For Word Segmentation, To Handle Hashtags In English, Obtaining Effective Results.