Event discovery in social media feeds
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Barzilay-Event discovery in social media feeds.pdf
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Author(s)
Benson, Edward Oscar
Haghighi, Aria
Barzilay, Regina
Date Issued
June 2011
Journal
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1, ACL HLT '11
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Association for Computational Linguistics
Citation
Benson, Edward, Aria Haghighi, and Regina Barzilay."Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds." Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, HLT '11,Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-24, 2011.
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Abstract
We present a novel method for record extraction from social streams such as Twitter. Unlike
typical extraction setups, these environments are characterized by short, one sentence messages with heavily colloquial speech. To further complicate matters, individual messages
may not express the full relation to be uncovered, as is often assumed in extraction tasks. We develop a graphical model that addresses these problems by learning a latent set
of records and a record-message alignment simultaneously; the output of our model is a set of canonical records, the values of which are consistent with aligned messages. We
demonstrate that our approach is able to accurately induce event records from Twitter messages, evaluated against events from a local city guide. Our method achieves significant error reduction over baseline methods.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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