Pragmatics and Semantics to Connect Specific Local Laws with Public Reactions

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Abstract

This paper proposes an approach called TOLCS (Tweet Ordinance Linkage by Commonsense and Semantics) which helps connect specific ordinances or local laws to pertinent tweets expressing public reactions on them. TOLCS incorporates pragmatic aspects by commonsense knowledge, and semantic aspects by domain knowledge along with text similarity methods. It uses a blocking mechanism to reduce sample space for efficiently processing big data on ordinances and tweets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018
EditorsNaoki Abe, Huan Liu, Calton Pu, Xiaohua Hu, Nesreen Ahmed, Mu Qiao, Yang Song, Donald Kossmann, Bing Liu, Kisung Lee, Jiliang Tang, Jingrui He, Jeffrey Saltz
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5433-5435
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781538650356
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018 - Seattle, United States
Duration: 10 Dec 201813 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle
Period10/12/1813/12/18

Keywords

  • Complexity
  • Efficiency
  • Ordinances
  • Smart Cities
  • Social Media Mining
  • Twitter

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