Holaaa!! writin like u talk is kewl but kinda hard 4 NLP

Maite Melero, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Judith Domingo, Montse Marquina, Martí Quixal


Abstract
We present work in progress aiming to build tools for the normalization of User-Generated Content (UGC). As we will see, the task requires the revisiting of the initial steps of NLP processing, since UGC (micro-blog, blog, and, generally, Web 2.0 user texts) presents a number of non-standard communicative and linguistic characteristics, and is in fact much closer to oral and colloquial language than to edited text. We present and characterize a corpus of UGC text in Spanish from three different sources: Twitter, consumer reviews and blogs. We motivate the need for UGC text normalization by analyzing the problems found when processing this type of text through a conventional language processing pipeline, particularly in the tasks of lemmatization and morphosyntactic tagging, and finally we propose a strategy for automatically normalizing UGC using a selector of correct forms on top of a pre-existing spell-checker.
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L12-1360
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3794–3800
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/627_Paper.pdf
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Maite Melero, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Judith Domingo, Montse Marquina, and Martí Quixal. 2012. Holaaa!! writin like u talk is kewl but kinda hard 4 NLP. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3794–3800, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Holaaa!! writin like u talk is kewl but kinda hard 4 NLP (Melero et al., LREC 2012)
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