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Microblog language identification: overcoming the limitations of short, unedited and idiomatic text.

Multilingual posts can potentially affect the outcomes of content analysis on microblog platforms. To this end, language identification can provide a monolingual set of content for analysis. We find the unedited and idiomatic language of microblogs to be challenging for state-of-the-art language ide...

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Published in:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 195 - 216
Main Authors: Carter, Simon, Weerkamp, Wouter, Tsagkias, Manos
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Mar2013
Subjects:
Linguistic identity
Microblogs
Instant messaging
Online social networks
Content analysis
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