The early bird catches the term: combining twitter and news data for event detection and situational awareness.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Twitter updates now represent an enormous stream of information originating from a wide variety of formal and informal sources, much of which is relevant to real-world events. They can therefore be highly useful for event detection and situational awareness applications.

Authors

  • Nicholas Thapen
    Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK. nicholas.thapen@imperial.ac.uk.
  • Donal Simmie
    Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK.
  • Chris Hankin
    Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK.