Tweet Acts: A Speech Act Classifier for Twitter

Speech acts are a way to conceptualize speech as action. This holds true for communication on any platform, including social media platforms such as Twitter. In this paper, we explored speech act recognition on Twitter by treating it as a multi-class classification problem. We created a taxonomy of...

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Main Authors: Vosoughi, Soroush (Contributor), Roy, Deb K (Author)
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor), Roy, Deb K. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016-06-21T19:10:02Z.
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