Diana Inkpen of the University of Ottawa will be giving the talk “Applications of Social Media Text Analysis” at noon in room 2203 of Dunton Tower.
http://carleton.ca/ics/andrew-brook-distinguished-lecture-series/colloquia-2015-2016/

Abstract of talk:

I will review the current research on NLP tools and methods for processing the non-traditional information such as social media content. I will focus on innovative NLP tasks (opinion mining and emotion analysis, geo-location detection, event and topic detection, entity linking and disambiguation, summarization and machine translation for social media) that can be used in order to integrate appropriate linguistic information in various fields such as social media monitoring for health care, security and defence, business intelligence and politics.
This talk is based on the new book that I co-authored, available at http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00659ED1V01Y201508HLT030
and on the tutorial that I presented at EMNLP 2015, available at http://www.emnlp2015.org/tutorials/3/3_OptionalAttachment.pdf.