Biographically Relevant Tweets – a New Dataset, Linguistic Analysis and Classification Experiments

Michael Wiegand, Rebecca Wilm, Katja Markert


Abstract
We present a new dataset comprising tweets for the novel task of detecting biographically relevant utterances. Biographically relevant utterances are all those utterances that reveal some persistent and non-trivial information about the author of a tweet, e.g. habits, (dis)likes, family status, physical appearance, employment information, health issues etc. Unlike previous research we do not restrict biographical relevance to a small fixed set of pre-defined relations. Next to classification experiments employing state-of-the-art classifiers to establish strong baselines for future work, we carry out a linguistic analysis that compares the predictiveness of various high-level features. We also show that the task is different from established tasks, such as aspectual classification or sentiment analysis.
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2022.coling-1.323
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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3669–3679
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Michael Wiegand, Rebecca Wilm, and Katja Markert. 2022. Biographically Relevant Tweets – a New Dataset, Linguistic Analysis and Classification Experiments. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3669–3679, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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