Statistics of online user-generated short documents
Inches, GiacomoFacoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
Carman, Mark J.Facoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
Crestani, FabioFacoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
2010
Published in:
Lecture notes in computer science. - Cham : Springer. - 2010, vol. 5993, p. 649-652
English
User-generated short documents assume an important role in online communication due to the established utilization of social networks and real- time text messaging on the Internet. In this paper we compare the statistics of different online user-generated datasets and traditional TREC collections, investigating their similarities and dferences. Our results support the applicability of traditional techniques also to user-generated short documents albeit with proper preprocessing.