Conference Proceedings
A support platform for event detection using social intelligence
T Baldwin, P Cook, B Han, A Harwood, S Karunasekera, M Moshtaghi
Eacl 2012 Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics | Published : 2012
Abstract
This paper describes a system designed to support event detection over Twitter. The system operates by querying the data stream with a user-specified set of keywords, filtering out non-English messages, and probabilistically geolocating each message. The user can dynamically set a probability threshold over the geolocation predictions, and also the time interval to present data for.