An Overview of Event Extraction from Twitter

As an emerging research area, event extraction from Twitter has attracted much attention since 2010. This paper attempts to provide a critical survey of the technical achievements in this area. It covers different aspects of the research, including the definition of the problem, existing approaches,...

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Published in2015 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery pp. 251 - 256
Main Authors Jingsheng Deng, Fengcai Qiao, Hongying Li, Xin Zhang, Hui Wang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2015
Subjects
Data mining
Earthquakes
Electromagnetic interference
event categorization
event extraction
event message identification
Feature extraction
Media
semantic elements extraction
Semantics
Twitter
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DOI10.1109/CyberC.2015.24

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Summary:As an emerging research area, event extraction from Twitter has attracted much attention since 2010. This paper attempts to provide a critical survey of the technical achievements in this area. It covers different aspects of the research, including the definition of the problem, existing approaches, and evaluation issues. Finally, in retrospect of what has been achieved so far, the survey also discusses the future challenges and research issues need to be addressed.
DOI:10.1109/CyberC.2015.24