Zhou, Yiwei and Kanhabua, N. and Cristea, A. I. (2016) 'Real-time timeline summarisation for high-impact events in Twitter.', in Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 29 August–2 September 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 1158-1166. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications., 285
Abstract
Twitter has become a valuable source of event-related information, namely, breaking news and local event reports. Due to its capability of transmitting information in real-time, Twitter is further exploited for timeline summarisation of high-impact events, such as protests, accidents, natural disasters or disease outbreaks. Such summaries can serve as important event digests where users urgently need information, especially if they are directly affected by the events. In this paper, we study the problem of timeline summarisation of high-impact events that need to be generated in real-time. Our proposed approach includes four stages: classification of realworld events reporting tweets, online incremental clustering, postprocessing and sub-events summarisation. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of different stages on the “Ebola outbreak” tweet stream, and compare our approach with several baselines, to demonstrate its effectiveness. Our approach can be applied as a replacement of a manually generated timeline and provides early alarms for disaster surveillance.
Item Type: | Book chapter |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Download PDF (394Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-672-9-1158 |
Publisher statement: | This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
Date accepted: | 08 June 2016 |
Date deposited: | 31 July 2018 |
Date of first online publication: | 24 August 2016 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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