Abstract:Users of the web are currently the main content authors. Social networks form a valuable source of large volumes of user-generated content that might be beneficial in different areas of research. In this paper, we exploit the data generated by users of micro-blogging services, in particular Twitter, for disambiguating terms and inferring possible taxonomies for terms. We conducted an exploratory study to test the possibility of inferring high-level categories and possible sub-categories for which terms might b… Show more
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