POS Tagging Algorithm for Location Mining from Tweets

POS tagging algorithm for location mining from
tweets
Abstract—Social media platforms contain a great wealth of
information which provides opportunities for people to
explore some hidden pattern or the unknown correlations. In
this paper, a critical review of five articles based on the POS
tagging algorithm for location mining from tweets is
presented. The articles were chosen since they contain viable
information which are related in some aspects and in terms of
their content and similarity of the algorithm presentation in
each. This paper also presents the analysis from the literature
review of the articles
I. INTRODUCTION
Today, there exist many social media platforms which
enables their users to link with others and share many
kinds of information. These social media data has
important information and provide the users with
opportunity to explore hidden patterns or the unknown
correlations, and understand the people’s satisfaction
with what they are discussing for different numerous
topics. While many of these social media information
and data exist in the public domain, it remains
challenging to analyse the data to mine the useful
information.
II. CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE ARTICLES
This work is inspired and related to multiple groups
of research. In this section, we summarize and
briefly discuss them as follows.
Twitter Data Analysis Tools. There are a few tools
available for analysing social networking data for
different application scenarios.
Keyhole1 offers an extensive number of packaged
analytics visualisations that illustrate metrics in an
easy-to-read graphs and layouts for keywords,
account summary and so on. It provides a variety of
dashboards to indicate the results according to user
input hashtag as the search key.
Tweet Sentiment visualization2 is an analytics
application developed to study ways to visualize
sentiment for unstructured and also non-
grammatical tweet. It offers a comprehensive suite
of sentiment visualization techniques that use
searched keywords to analyze the sentiment behind
each tweet associated with the searched keywords.
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Twitter Analytics3 is another analytics application
that is developed by Twitter. It has two main tools.
One is Tweet activity dashboard which allows user
to learn more about their Tweets and understand
their audience. The other is an enhanced analytics
known as audience insights, which provides a more
de-tailed breakdown of user’s followers to help
advertiser’s better strategies their advertisement.
Data Crawlers. There are a few crawling systems
which have been used in the past few years to
support Twitter research. Song et.al [1] explored
topological and geographical properties using
Twitter. Using REST API methods, they extracted
tweets from April 1st to May 30th 2007 and
obtained around 1.3million tweets from 76k users.
For the period that the authors crawled, Twitter had
just started up such that it is insufficient to collect a
significant amount of data. Several other
researchers crawled Tweet from Twitter to
investigate sentiment analysis [2], to develop spam
detection system to identify suspicious users [3] and
to detect critical events promptly [4]. Most of the
research were systems that is focusing on specific
data.
Sentiment Analysis. Sentiment analysis is a growing
area of Natural Language Processing. It can be
handled at many levels of granularity, starting from
being a document-level classification [5] to
sentence-level classification [6] and more recent at
phrase-level classification [7].
III. ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHM
Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction (RAKE)-
based Algorithm. The second topic extraction
algorithm we developed is based on RAKE. RAKE is a
well-known algorithm implemented in Python for
extracting keywords from text[18]. It is an algorithm
that is category-independent and language-
independent for extracting keywords from text. The
algorithm works by extracting all the non-stopwords
and then scoring these phrases across the text.
Unlike other algorithms, it does not remove
punctuation signs and instead treated as sentence
boundaries. It also uses one stopwords list where
the stopwords are treated as phrase boundaries to
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