Statistics of Online User-Generated Short Documents

User-generated short documents assume an important role in online communication due to the established utilization of social networks and real-time text messaging on the Internet. In this paper we compare the statistics of different online user-generated datasets and traditional TREC collections, investigating their similarities and differences. Our results support the applicability of traditional techniques also to user-generated short documents albeit with proper preprocessing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ECIR
• Authors: Giacomo Inches, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
• Keywords: ECIR 2010, Information Technology, Online User-generated Datasets, Traditional Trec Collections, User-generated Short Documents