Classification in twitter to improve information filtering

.............................................................................................................................. ii Dedication .......................................................................................................................... iv Acknowledgments............................................................................................................... v Vita .................................................................................................................................... vii List of Figures .................................................................................................................... xi Chapter 1: Introduction to Text Classification................................................................... 1 1.1 Classification ............................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Text Classification..................................................................................................... 1 1.2.1 Text Representation ............................................................................................ 3 1.3 Short Text Classification ........................................................................................... 5 1.3.1 Related Work ...................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2: Overview of Twitter ........................................................................................ 13 2.