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What Were the Tweets About? Topical Associations between Public Events and Twitter Feeds
Published on 2012-07-062660 Views
Social media channels such as Twitter have emerged as platforms for crowds to respond to public and televised events such as speeches and debates. However, the very large volume of responses presents
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What were the Tweets about? Topical Associations between Public Events and Twitter Feeds00:00
Social media has changed our way of responding to events00:32
Research goals02:33
Preliminary understanding03:51
Three conjectures about the crowd’s responses05:43
More insights07:07
Our approach08:05
ET-LDA in a nutshell09:21
Experiments09:59
General/Specific topics from #MESpeech11:32
General/Specific topics from #ReaganDebate12:56
Examples of Steady/Episodic tweets13:36
Evolution of Episodic tweets over the event’s timeline14:21
Distribution of Segments Referred to by Episodic tweets (#MESpeech)16:20
Subjective Evaluation18:23
Our findings18:54
Questions?19:54