Real-time detection, tracking, and monitoring of automatically discovered events in social media

Miles Osborne; Sean Moran; Richard McCreadie; Alexander von Lunen; Martin Sykora; Elizabeth Cano; Neil Ireson; Craig Macdonald; Iadh Ounis; Yulan He; Tom Jackson; Fabio Ciravegna; Ann O'Brien

Real-time detection, tracking, and monitoring of automatically discovered events in social media

Miles Osborne
, Sean Moran
, Richard McCreadie
, Alexander von Lunen
, Martin Sykora
, Elizabeth Cano
, Neil Ireson
, Craig Macdonald
, Iadh Ounis
, Yulan He
, Tom Jackson
, Fabio Ciravegna
, Ann O'Brien

Computer Science Research Group

University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Loughborough University
University of Sheffield

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

Abstract

We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. Then those that are categorised as being security-relevant are tracked, geolocated, summarised and visualised for the end-user. Furthermore, the system tracks changes in emotions over events, signalling possible flashpoints or abatement. We demonstrate the capabilities of ReDites using an extended use case from the September 2013 Westgate shooting incident. Through an evaluation of system latencies, we also show that enriched events are made available for users to explore within seconds of that event occurring.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 52nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	52nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Baltimore, MD, United States Duration: 22 Jun 2014 → 27 Jun 2014

Meeting

Meeting	52nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	ACL 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Baltimore, MD
Period	22/06/14 → 27/06/14

A simple Bayesian modelling approach to event extraction from Twitter
Zhou, D., Chen, L. & He, Y., 2014, The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2. p. 700-705 6 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
Automatic labelling of topic models learned from Twitter by summarisation
Cano, E. & He, Y., 2014, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2. p. 618-624 7 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

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Osborne, M, Moran, S, McCreadie, R, von Lunen, A, Sykora, M, Cano, E, Ireson, N, Macdonald, C, Ounis, I, He, Y, Jackson, T, Ciravegna, F & O'Brien, A 2014, Real-time detection, tracking, and monitoring of automatically discovered events in social media. in The 52nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 52nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore, MD, United States, 22/06/14.

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Real-time detection, tracking, and monitoring of automatically discovered events in social media

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A simple Bayesian modelling approach to event extraction from Twitter

Automatic labelling of topic models learned from Twitter by summarisation

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