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Short Text Representation in Microblogs
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 11:00 am-12:00 pm Calendar
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Abstract

User generated contents in social media platforms provide important and timely indicators on the spontaneous and often genuine views of users, fans, and customers on a wide range of topics. It is thus invaluable to obtain actionable insights from such live streaming contents. In this talk, I consider the problem of topic-specific micro-post representation in which we aim to develop accurate language models that encode micro-posts with arbitrary lengths into vectors of fixed length such that semantically similar micro-posts are close in the vector space. I will show the application of our model in Brandtology that is defined as the science of studying brands, customers, and the interaction between the two in the context of social networks. In particular, I will talk about two issues in Brandtology, namely churn prediction and emerging topic detection for brands in social media.

Bio

Hadi Amiri is currently a Postdoc at the University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He is affiliated with the Computational Linguistics & Information Processing (CLIP) lab. His primary research interests are in the areas of Social Media Analysis and Natural Language Processing, and his current work centers on understanding exposition in the context of social networks. He received his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2013 and worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) from 2013-2014.

This talk is organized by Naomi Feldman