Overview of the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2017 Shared Task: Social Media User Modeling

In this paper, we give the overview of the social media user modeling shared task in the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2017. We first review the background of social media user modeling, and then describe two social media user modeling tasks in this year’s NLPCC-ICCPOL, including the construction of the benchmark datasets and the evaluation metrics. The evaluation results of submissions from participating teams are presented in the experimental part.