The Meaning of Hashtags Matters: Detecting Hashtags Such as #JeSuisKouachi

13 pages•Published: November 28, 2016

Daniel Couto Vale and Adjan Hansen-Ampah

Abstract

In this paper, we model how the contexts of situation and of discourse restrict meaning potential and apply the resulting model in automatic linguistic analysis of hashtags for tasks of sentiment analysis. With our model, we are able to assign different meanings to \#JeSuisCharlie and \#JeSuisKouachi and variations of them.

Keyphrases: hashtag, hate speech, nlp, parsing

In: Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Pérez-Hernández (editors). CILC2016. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, vol 1, pages 45-57.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/kvw
	https://doi.org/10.29007/8z29

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CILC2016:Meaning_Hashtags_Matters_Detecting,
  author    = {Daniel Couto Vale and Adjan Hansen-Ampah},
  title     = {The Meaning of Hashtags Matters: Detecting Hashtags Such as #JeSuisKouachi},
  booktitle = {CILC2016. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics},
  editor    = {Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Pérez-Hernández},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5283},
  url       = {/publications/paper/kvw},
  doi       = {10.29007/8z29},
  pages     = {45-57},
  year      = {2016}}

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