Mining Tweets that refer to TV programs with Deep Neural Networks

Takeshi Kobayakawa, Taro Miyazaki, Hiroki Okamoto, Simon Clippingdale
NHK


Abstract

The automatic analysis of expressions of opinion has been well studied in the opinion mining area, but a remaining problem is robustness for user-generated texts. Although consumer-generated texts are valuable since they contain a great number and wide variety of user evaluations, spelling inconsistency and the variety of expressions make analysis difficult. In order to tackle such situations, we applied a model that is reported to handle context in many natural language processing areas, to the problem of extracting references to the opinion target from text. Experiments on tweets that refer to television programs show that the model can extract such references with more than 90\% accuracy.