TY - GEN
T1 - An interactive interface for visualizing events on Twitter
AU - McMinn, Andrew J.
AU - Tsvetkov, Daniel
AU - Yordanov, Tsvetan
AU - Patterson, Andrew
AU - Szk, Rrobi
AU - Rodriguez Perez, Jesus A.
AU - Josey, Joemon M.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In recent years, social media has become one of the most popular tools for discovering and following breaking news and ongoing events. However tools and interfaces have lagged behind users' expectations, with current tools making it difficult to discover new events and failing to provide a solution to the problem of information overload. We have developed an interactive interface for visualizing events, backed by a state-of-the-art event detection approach, which is able to detect, track and summarize events in real-time. Our inter-face provides up-to-the-second information about ongoing events in an easy to understand manner, including category information, temporal distribution, and location information - all of which was previously unobtainable in real-time.
AB - In recent years, social media has become one of the most popular tools for discovering and following breaking news and ongoing events. However tools and interfaces have lagged behind users' expectations, with current tools making it difficult to discover new events and failing to provide a solution to the problem of information overload. We have developed an interactive interface for visualizing events, backed by a state-of-the-art event detection approach, which is able to detect, track and summarize events in real-time. Our inter-face provides up-to-the-second information about ongoing events in an easy to understand manner, including category information, temporal distribution, and location information - all of which was previously unobtainable in real-time.
KW - Event detection
KW - Event visualization
KW - Social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904556381&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2611189
DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2611189
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450322591
T3 - SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
SP - 1271
EP - 1272
BT - SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2014
Y2 - 6 July 2014 through 11 July 2014
ER -