Category Archives: Social Media

Posts about Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other social networks and social media.

Why is social media hard to analyse?

Type of session : Play Title: Why is social media hard to analyse? Name of session facilitator: Diana Maynard Approximate duration: 1-2 hours Skill level: beginner Proposal:  Tools for analysing tweets and other kinds of social media are everywhere these days, allowing us to understand what kinds of opinions are being expressed and who is talking about what. However, […]

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Introduction to GATE for text analysis

Type of session : Teach/Play Title: Introduction to GATE for text analysis Name of session facilitator: Diana Maynard Approximate duration: 2 hours Skill level: all Proposal:  This session will demonstrate the basics of text analysis tasks such as named entity recognition and sentiment analysis with the open source GATE tools. Participants will be able to use […]

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