... Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1035–1044,Jeju, Republic of Korea, 8-14 July 2012.c2012 Association for Computational LinguisticsA Broad-Coverage Normalization System for Social Media ... as social text”,which is significantly different from the traditionalnews text due to the informal writing style and theconversational nature. The social text serves as avery valuable information ... tweets(Foster et al., 2011). It is therefore of great impor-tance to normalize the social text before applying thestandard NLP techniques. Text normalization is alsocrucial for building robust text-to-speech...