Affiliation:
1. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
2. Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
Abstract
The main objective of this chapter is to present a general overview of the most relevant applications of text mining and natural language processing technologies evolving and emerging around the Web 2.0 phenomenon (such as automatic categorization, document summarization, question answering, dialogue management, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, outlier identification, misbehavior detection, and social estimation and forecasting) along with the main challenges and new research opportunities that are directly and indirectly derived from them.
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