Goelbeck 2012 CHI

Citation

This is a review of Goelbeck 2012 CHI The Twitter Mute Button: A Web Filtering Challenge.

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Clarity of Writing

• 5

Completeness

• 3

• This works presents a nascent approach to solve the topic specific filtering of tweets. Bag of words with some additional heuristics were used to filter tweets about three hand-picked topics.

Originality

• 3

• The problem is quite interesting and can be a useful tool for people to mute/unmute tweets on a topic. However, the approach and experimentation is quite limited.

Experimental Work

• 2

• The experimental work is quite anecdotal. The test set is too small to justify that this approach can be used to catch tweets about various topics. Especially, with text-normalization challenges in the ill-behaved text like tweets.

Overall Recommendation

• 3