Microtext Processing

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The term "microtext" describes a type of text document that is very short (typically one sentence or less), is written in an informal manner and unedited for quality, and includes some metadata. Microtexts have become omnipresent in today's world, and include online user comments, Facebook newsfeeds and Tweets, and search queries. By their very nature, microtexts are a very different challenge from traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their short length hinders NLP methodologies that rely on word frequencies and statistics, and the abundance of spelling mistakes, typos, and unconventional abbreviations make standard linguistic resources unhelpful. Microtext processing should be seen as a new branch of NLP.