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Table 2 Contractions and equivalents

From: Sentiment and structure in word co-occurrence networks on Twitter

Contractions

Converted to

Remarks

n’t

<space>not

 

’s

<space>

either “is” or possessive marker

’m

<space>

“am”; for consistency, since “’s” is converted to a space

’d

<space>

either “had” or “would”

’re

<space>

“are”; for consistency, since “’s” is converted to a space

’ve

<space>have

 

’ll

<space>will

 
  1. Some contractions in tweets were converted to equivalent strings. In case of ambiguity, the contraction is converted to a blank space