A SMS-like language analyzer for Spanish
Abstract
The usage of specific language codes and chat and SMS-like messages is a major trend in electronic communications. This fact makes Natrual Language Processing quite hard, even at the simplest step fo text message tokenization, due to the widespread usage of non-alphanumeric symbols, frequent typos and non-standard word separators.
In this work we present a new approach for text message tokenization, specific for the Spanish language as used in Social Networks and in electronic communications. Our system has been integrated in a more general application for age-detection in Social Networks developed in the research and development project WENDY, and it has been quantitatively evaluated both in a direct fashion, and indirectly by its impact on the genearl age-detection application, showing very promising results.
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