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Intent classification of short-text on social media,

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Purohit, Hemant, Dong, Guozhu, Shalin, Valerie, Thirunarayan, Krishnaprasad, Sheth, Amit·2015·2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City/SocialCom/SustainCom (SmartCity)

Abstract

Social media platforms facilitate the emergence of citizen communities that discuss real-world events. Their content reflects a variety of intent ranging from social good (e.g., volunteering to help) to commercial interest (e.g., criticizing product features). Hence, mining intent from social data can aid in filtering social media to support organizations, such as an emergency management unit for resource planning. However, effective intent mining is inherently challenging due to ambiguity in interpretation, and sparsity of relevant behaviors in social data. In this paper, we address the problem of multiclass classification of intent with a use-case of social data generated during crisis events. Our novel method exploits a hybrid feature representation created by combining top-down processing using knowledge-guided patterns with bottom-up processing using a bag-of-tokens model. We employ pattern-set creation from a variety of knowledge sources including psycholinguistics to tackle the ambiguity challenge, social behavior about conversations to enrich context, and contrast patterns to tackle the sparsity challenge. Our results show a significant absolute gain up to 7% in the F1 score relative to a baseline using bottom-up processing alone, within the popular multiclass frameworks of One-vs-One and One-vs-All. Intent mining can help design efficient cooperative information systems between citizens and organizations for serving organizational information needs.

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  • Purohit et al. (2015) showed that it is possible to extract intent when the channel is text-only and restricted in length.

    “the work by Purohit et al. (2015), who applied intent classification to short messages on Twitter, showed that it is possible to extract intent when the channel is text-only and restricted in length.”

    From Modeling Feedback in Interaction With Conversational Agents—A Review (2022) · cites this paper as Purohit et al., 2015

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Authors
Purohit, H., Dong, G., Shalin, V., Thirunarayan, K., & Sheth, A.
Affiliations
  • George Mason University (US)
  • Wright State University (US)
Venue
2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City/SocialCom/SustainCom (SmartCity)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2015-12
Pages
222-228
OpenAlex
W2237059446
Cited by
66
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6
FWCI
2.25
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • IEEE International Conference on Smart City/SocialCom/SustainCom (publishedVersion)
  • CORE Scholar (Wright State University) (submittedVersion)
  • Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina) (submittedVersion)
  • Journal of Bioresource Management (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Text and Document Classification Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Keywords
intent classification, short text, social media, crisis events, multi-class classification, hybrid feature representation, psycholinguistics, ambiguity, emergency management, citizen participation

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