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Semantics + filtering + search = twitcident. exploring information in social web streams

Authors:

Geert-Jan Houben,

Richard Stronkman,

Ke TaoAuthors Info & Claims

HT '12: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media

Pages 285 - 294

https://doi.org/10.1145/2309996.2310043

Published: 25 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Automatically filtering relevant information about a real-world incident from Social Web streams and making the information accessible and findable in the given context of the incident are non-trivial scientific challenges. In this paper, we engineer and evaluate solutions that analyze the semantics of Social Web data streams to solve these challenges. We introduce Twitcident, a framework and Web-based system for filtering, searching and analyzing information about real-world incidents or crises. Given an incident, our framework automatically starts tracking and filtering information that is relevant for the incident from Social Web streams and Twitter particularly. It enriches the semantics of streamed messages to profile incidents and to continuously improve and adapt the information filtering to the current temporal context. Faceted search and analytical tools allow people and emergency services to retrieve particular information fragments and overview and analyze the current situation as reported on the Social Web.

We put our Twitcident system into practice by connecting it to emergency broadcasting services in the Netherlands to allow for the retrieval of relevant information from Twitter streams for any incident that is reported by those services. We conduct large-scale experiments in which we evaluate (i) strategies for filtering relevant information for a given incident and (ii) search strategies for finding particular information pieces. Our results prove that the semantic enrichment offered by our framework leads to major and significant improvements of both the filtering and the search performance. A demonstration is available via: http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/twitcident/

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1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval tasks and goals
      1. Document filtering
      2. Information extraction

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HT '12: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media

June 2012

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ISBN:9781450313353

DOI:10.1145/2309996

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
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Graz University of Technology, Austria

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