[Air-L] Chinese language social media data mining tools

[C.H.]

I don't aware of any ready to use data mining tools. Probably you need
to develop the tool yourself.

For one project (e.g. Weiboscope [1]), we need to gather data from the
API first and then do the data analysis. The tricky part about the
Chinese language is that it is not space delimited and therefore one
cannot tokenize a sentence into words as in the case of English (or
other space delimited languages such as French or German.) It can be
solved partially using text segmenters such as Stanford NLP toolkits
or Jieba.

[1] Fu, Chan, Chau. Assessing Censorship on Microblogs in China.
https://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/183851/1/content.pdf?accept=1

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Helen Kennedy
<h.kennedy at sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello clever AOIR folks
>
> Asking for postgrad students: any recommendations of social media data
> mining tools that work on Chinese social media platforms / with Chinese
> languages?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Helen
>
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