Join us and some surprising people in a twitter discussion about surprising things in science. This is part of the AAAS’s new Virtual Media initiative. The AAAS is of course the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes Science magazine, organizes the AAAS Annual Meeting (at which we have done an Improbable Research […]
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A sarcastic tweet detection algorithm
Is it possible to build a sarcasm detector classification algorithm for Twitter tweets? This was the question facing Christine Liebrecht, Florian Kunneman and Antal van den Bosch at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 2013. And the answer, in broad terms, was found to be ‘yes’ – in fact the […]
Earworms meet Big Data (on Twitter)
Back in 2008, Dr. Lassi A. Liikkanen [pictured] of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), University of Helsinki, Finland performed a formal scientific study to investigate INvoluntary Musical Imagery (INMI), a phenomenon more commonly known as an Earworm. Now Dr Liikkanen, along with Kelly Jakubowski and Jukka M. Toivanen have for the first time […]
The tweets of Dr. Kwak (Twitter Investigator)
The tweets of Dr. Kwak, who is an expert on Twitter [being the lead author of ‘What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?’ (cited 3,000+ times)] may be found here.