<p><strong>TwitIE</strong> is a named entity recognition pipeline specially tuned for use with Twitter data.  It performs</p>
<ul>
  <li>tokenisation, sentence splitting and part-of-speech tagging using a model
    trained specifically for Tweets</li>
  <li>normalisation of abbreviations and shortened word forms frequently found
    in Tweets ("brb", "ttyl", "gr8", "2day", etc.)</li>
  <li>tagging of Twitter-specific entities such as <em>hashtags</em> and
    <em>@mentions</em>, as well as URLs and emoticon