TweeNLP: A Twitter Exploration Portal for Natural Language Processing

TL;DR

TweeNLP is a comprehensive platform that organizes and visualizes Twitter data related to NLP, facilitating exploration of research discussions, trends, and conference activities for the NLP community.

Contribution

It introduces a unified portal integrating Twitter NLP data with visualization tools and literature search, enhancing community engagement and research tracking.

Findings

Curated nearly 20,000 NLP-related tweets from conferences and discussions.

Enabled topic exploration and trend visualization within the NLP community.

Connected tweets with research papers for integrated exploration.

Abstract

We present TweeNLP, a one-stop portal that organizes Twitter's natural language processing (NLP) data and builds a visualization and exploration platform. It curates 19,395 tweets (as of April 2021) from various NLP conferences and general NLP discussions. It supports multiple features such as TweetExplorer to explore tweets by topics, visualize insights from Twitter activity throughout the organization cycle of conferences, discover popular research papers and researchers. It also builds a timeline of conference and workshop submission deadlines. We envision TweeNLP to function as a collective memory unit for the NLP community by integrating the tweets pertaining to research papers with the NLPExplorer scientific literature search engine. The current system is hosted at http://nlpexplorer.org/twitter/CFP .