Capturing users' buying activity at Akihabara electric town from twitter

  • Authors:
  • The-Minh Nguyen;Takahiro Kawamura;Yasuyuki Tahara;Akihiko Ohsuga

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Systems, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Information Systems, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Information Systems, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Information Systems, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICCCI'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to describe a method to automatically capture users' buying activity at Akihabara electric town in each sentence retrieved from twitter. Sentences retrieved from twitter are often diversified, complex, syntactically wrong, have emoticons and new words. There are some works that have tried to extract users' activities in sentences retrieved from weblogs and twitter. However, these works have some limitations, such as inability of extracting infrequent activities, high setup cost, limitation on the types of sentences that can be handled, necessary of preparing a list of object, action and syntax patterns. To resolve these problems, we propose a novel approach that treats the activity extraction as a sequence labeling problem, and automatically makes its own training data. This approach can extract infrequent activities, and has advantages such as scalability, unnecessary any hand-tagged data.