Improving microblog retrieval from exterior corpus by automatically constructing a microblogging corpus

Abstract

A large-scale training corpus consisting of microblogs belonging to a desired category is important for highaccuracy microblog retrieval. Obtaining such a large-scale microblgging corpus manually is very time and laborconsuming. Therefore, some models for the automatic retrieval of microblogs from an exterior corpus have been proposed. However, these approaches may fail in considering microblog-specific features. To alleviate this issue, we propose a methodology that constructs a simulated microblogging corpus rather than directly building a model from the exterior corpus. The performance of our model is better since the microblog-special knowledge of the microblogging corpus is used in the end by the retrieval model. Experimental results on real-world microblogs demonstrate the superiority of our technique compared to the previous approaches.