CLEF MC2 2018 Lab Technical Overview of Cross Language Microblog Search and Argumentative Mining

Jean-Valère Cossu, Julio Gonzalo, Malek Hajjem, Olivier Hamon, Chiraz Latiri, Eric SanJuan
2018 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum  
MC2 lab mainly focuses on developing processing methods and resources to mine the social media (SM) spheres surrounding cultural events such as festivals, music, books, movies and museums. Two main tasks and one pilot ran in 2018. The first task was specific to movies. Topics were extracted from the French VodKaster website that allows readers to get personal short comments (microcritics) about movies. The challenge was to find related microblogs in four different languages in a large archive.
more » ... he second task, argumentation mining, aimed to automatically identify reason-conclusion structures that can lead to model social web users positions about a cultural event expressed via Twitter microblogs. The idea was to perform a search process on a massive microblog collection that focuses on claims about a given festival. A pilot task was also launched on a new corpus, extending the 2017 language recognition task to handle also dialects.
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