Extracting and modeling typical durations of events and habits from Twitter
Creator
Williams, Jennifer Alexandra
Advisor
Katz, Graham
Abstract
This thesis presents recent work on a new method to automatically extract fine-grained duration information for common verbs using a large corpus of Twitter tweets. I present the results of distinguishing between habitual and episodic uses of verbs using semi-supervised machine learning methods. This work has resulted in a lexicon that contains verb lemmas and their associated episodic and habitual durations.
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M.S.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/557710Date Published
2012Subject
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Georgetown University
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82 leaves
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