Detecting controversial events from twitter

  • Authors:
  • Ana-Maria Popescu;Marco Pennacchiotti

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Labs, Sunnyvale, CA, USA;Yahoo! Labs, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Social media provides researchers with continuously updated information about developments of interest to large audiences. This paper addresses the task of identifying controversial events using Twitter as a starting point: we propose 3 models for this task and report encouraging initial results.