TY - JOUR KW - Classification KW - Happiness KW - Topic Classification KW - Text Classification KW - Graphs KW - NLP AU - Héctor Cordobés AU - Antonio Fernández Anta AU - Luis Chiroque AU - Fernando Pérez AU - Teófilo Redondo AU - Agustín Santos AB - Topic classification of texts is one of the most interesting challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Topic classifiers commonly use a bag-of-words approach, in which the classifier uses (and is trained with) selected terms from the input texts. In this work we present techniques based on graph similarity to classify short texts by topic. In our classifier we build graphs from the input texts, and then use properties of these graphs to classify them. We have tested the resulting algorithm by classifying Twitter messages in Spanish among a predefined set of topics, achieving more than 70% accuracy. IS - Special Issue on AI Techniques to Evaluate Economics and Happines M1 - 5 N2 - Topic classification of texts is one of the most interesting challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Topic classifiers commonly use a bag-of-words approach, in which the classifier uses (and is trained with) selected terms from the input texts. In this work we present techniques based on graph similarity to classify short texts by topic. In our classifier we build graphs from the input texts, and then use properties of these graphs to classify them. We have tested the resulting algorithm by classifying Twitter messages in Spanish among a predefined set of topics, achieving more than 70% accuracy. PY - 2014 SP - 31 EP - 37 T2 - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence TI - Graph-based Techniques for Topic Classification of Tweets in Spanish UR - http://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2014/03/ijimai20142_5_4_pdf_17528.pdf VL - 2 SN - 1989-1660 ER -