A Comparison of Nuggets and Clusters for Evaluating Timeline Summaries

There is growing interest in systems that generate timeline summaries by filtering high-volume streams of documents to retain only those that are relevant to a particular event or topic. Continued advances in algorithms and techniques for this task depend on standardized and repr … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Analyzing Disproportionate Reaction via Comparative Multilingual Targeted Sentiment in Twitter

Global events such as terrorist attacks are commented upon in social media, such as Twitter, in different languages and from different parts of the world. Most prior studies have focused on monolingual sentiment analysis, and therefore excluded an extensive proportion of the Twit … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Transfer Learning for Multi-language Twitter Election Classification

Both politicians and citizens are increasingly embracing social media as a means to disseminate information and comment on various topics, particularly during significant political events, such as elections. Such commentary during elections is also of interest to social scientist … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Searching the Internet of Things

Richard McCreadie, Dyaa Albakour, Jaranna Manotumruka, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh OunisSearching the Internet of ThingsBuilding Blocks for IoT Analytics, 2016.BookBIBTEX | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

A Comparison of Nuggets and Clusters for Evaluating Timeline Summaries

There is growing interest in systems that generate timeline summaries by filtering high-volume streams of documents to retain only those that are relevant to a particular event or topic. Continued advances in algorithms and techniques for this task depend on standardized and repr … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

A Comparison of Nuggets and Clusters for Evaluating Timeline Summaries

There is growing interest in systems that generate timeline summaries by filtering high-volume streams of documents to retain only those that are relevant to a particular event or topic. Continued advances in algorithms and techniques for this task depend on standardized and repr … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Analyzing Disproportionate Reaction via Comparative Multilingual Targeted Sentiment in Twitter

Global events such as terrorist attacks are commented upon in social media, such as Twitter, in different languages and from different parts of the world. Most prior studies have focused on monolingual sentiment analysis, and therefore excluded an extensive proportion of the Twit … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Analyzing Disproportionate Reaction via Comparative Multilingual Targeted Sentiment in Twitter

Global events such as terrorist attacks are commented upon in social media, such as Twitter, in different languages and from different parts of the world. Most prior studies have focused on monolingual sentiment analysis, and therefore excluded an extensive proportion of the Twit … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Transfer Learning for Multi-language Twitter Election Classification

Both politicians and citizens are increasingly embracing social media as a means to disseminate information and comment on various topics, particularly during significant political events, such as elections. Such commentary during elections is also of interest to social scientist … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Transfer Learning for Multi-language Twitter Election Classification

Both politicians and citizens are increasingly embracing social media as a means to disseminate information and comment on various topics, particularly during significant political events, such as elections. Such commentary during elections is also of interest to social scientist … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Searching the Internet of Things

Richard McCreadie, Dyaa Albakour, Jaranna Manotumruka, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh Ounis Searching the Internet of Things Building Blocks for IoT Analytics, 2016. Book BIBTEX | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

Searching the Internet of Things

Richard McCreadie, Dyaa Albakour, Jaranna Manotumruka, Craig Macdonald, and Iadh OunisSearching the Internet of ThingsBuilding Blocks for IoT Analytics, 2016.BookBIBTEX | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 7 years ago

EAIMS: Emergency Analysis Identification and Management System

Social media has great potential as a means to enable civil protection and law enforcement agencies to more effectively tackle disasters and emergencies. However, there is currently a lack of tools that enable civil protection agencies to easily make use of social media. The Emer … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

EAIMS: Emergency Analysis Identification and Management System

Social media has great potential as a means to enable civil protection and law enforcement agencies to more effectively tackle disasters and emergencies. However, there is currently a lack of tools that enable civil protection agencies to easily make use of social media. The Emer … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

EAIMS: Emergency Analysis Identification and Management System

Social media has great potential as a means to enable civil protection and law enforcement agencies to more effectively tackle disasters and emergencies. However, there is currently a lack of tools that enable civil protection agencies to easily make use of social media. The Emer … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

Comparing Overall and Targeted Sentiments in Social Media during Crises

The tracking of citizens' reactions in social media during crises has attracted an increasing level of interest in the research community. In particular, sentiment analysis over social media posts can be regarded as a particularly useful tool, enabling civil protection and law en … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

Comparing Overall and Targeted Sentiments in Social Media during Crises

The tracking of citizens' reactions in social media during crises has attracted an increasing level of interest in the research community. In particular, sentiment analysis over social media posts can be regarded as a particularly useful tool, enabling civil protection and law en … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

Comparing Overall and Targeted Sentiments in Social Media during Crises

The tracking of citizens' reactions in social media during crises has attracted an increasing level of interest in the research community. In particular, sentiment analysis over social media posts can be regarded as a particularly useful tool, enabling civil protection and law en … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 8 years ago

SUPER: Towards the use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 9 years ago

Crowdsourced Rumour Identification During Emergencies

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 9 years ago

SUPER: Towards the use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies

Social media statistics during recent disasters (e.g. the 20 million tweets relating to `Sandy' storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) suggest that the understanding and management of real-world events by civil protection and law enforcement age … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 9 years ago

SUPER: Towards the use of Social Sensors for Security Assessments and Proactive Management of Emergencies

Social media statistics during recent disasters (e.g. the 20 million tweets relating to `Sandy' storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) suggest that the understanding and management of real-world events by civil protection and law enforcement age … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 9 years ago

Crowdsourced Rumour Identification During Emergencies

When a significant event occurs, many social media users leverage platforms such as Twitter to track that event. Moreover, emergency response agencies are increasingly looking to social media as a source of real-time information about such events. However, false information and r … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 9 years ago

Crowdsourced Rumour Identification During Emergencies

When a significant event occurs, many social media users leverage platforms such as Twitter to track that event. Moreover, emergency response agencies are increasingly looking to social media as a source of real-time information about such events. However, false information and r … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 9 years ago

Incremental Update Summarization: Adaptive Sentence Selection based on Prevalence and Novelty

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Incremental Update Summarization: Adaptive Sentence Selection based on Prevalence and Novelty

The automatic summarization of long-running events from news steams is a challenging problem. A long-running event can contain hundreds of unique ‘nuggets’ of information to summarize, spread-out over its lifetime. Meanwhile, informatio reported about it can rapidly become outdat … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Incremental Update Summarization: Adaptive Sentence Selection based on Prevalence and Novelty

The automatic summarization of long-running events from news steams is a challenging problem. A long-running event can contain hundreds of unique ‘nuggets’ of information to summarize, spread-out over its lifetime. Meanwhile, informatio reported about it can rapidly become outdat … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

A Study of Personalised Medical Literature Search

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Comparing Algorithms for Microblog Summarisation

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

A Study of Personalised Medical Literature Search

Medical search engines are used everyday by both medical practitioners and the public to find the latest medical literature and guidance regarding conditions and treatments. Importantly, the information needs that drive medical search can vary between users for the same query, as … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

A Study of Personalised Medical Literature Search

Medical search engines are used everyday by both medical practitioners and the public to find the latest medical literature and guidance regarding conditions and treatments. Importantly, the information needs that drive medical search can vary between users for the same query, as … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Comparing Algorithms for Microblog Summarisation

Event detection and tracking using social media and user-generated content has received a lot of attention from the research community in recent years, since such sources can purportedly provide up-to-date information about events as they evolve, e.g. earthquakes. Concisely repor … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Comparing Algorithms for Microblog Summarisation

Event detection and tracking using social media and user-generated content has received a lot of attention from the research community in recent years, since such sources can purportedly provide up-to-date information about events as they evolve, e.g. earthquakes. Concisely repor … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

On Choosing an Effective Automatic Evaluation Metric for Microblog Summarisation

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

On Choosing an Effective Automatic Evaluation Metric for Microblog Summarisation

Popular microblogging services, such as Twitter, are engaging millions of users who constantly post and share information about news and current events each day, resulting in millions of messages discussing what is happening in the world. To help users obtain an overview of micro … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

On Choosing an Effective Automatic Evaluation Metric for Microblog Summarisation

Popular microblogging services, such as Twitter, are engaging millions of users who constantly post and share information about news and current events each day, resulting in millions of messages discussing what is happening in the world. To help users obtain an overview of micro … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media

We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media

We introduce ReDites, a system for realtime event detection, tracking, monitoring and visualisation. It is designed to assist Information Analysts in understanding and exploring complex events as they unfold in the world. Events are automatically detected from the Twitter stream. … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 10 years ago

Scalable Distributed Event Detection for Twitter

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

Scalable Distributed Event Detection for Twitter

Social media streams, such as Twitter, have shown themselves to be useful sources of real-time information about what is happening in the world. Automatic detection and tracking of events identified in these streams have a variety of real-world applications, e.g. identifying and … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

Scalable Distributed Event Detection for Twitter

Social media streams, such as Twitter, have shown themselves to be useful sources of real-time information about what is happening in the world. Automatic detection and tracking of events identified in these streams have a variety of real-world applications, e.g. identifying and … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

News Vertical Search: When and What to Display to Users

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

News Vertical Search: When and What to Display to Users

News reporting has seen a shift toward fast-paced online reporting in new sources such as social media. Web Search engines that support a news vertical have historically relied upon articles published by major newswire providers when serving news-related queries. In this paper, w … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

News Vertical Search: When and What to Display to Users

News reporting has seen a shift toward fast-paced online reporting in new sources such as social media. Web Search engines that support a news vertical have historically relied upon articles published by major newswire providers when serving news-related queries. In this paper, w … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

Learning to Process Big Data with MapReduce and Hadoop - Hands-On Exercises

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@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

Learning to Process Big Data with MapReduce and Hadoop - Hands-On Exercises

I recently ran a hands-on session at the SICSA Summer School on Big Data Information Visualisation on MapReduce and Hadoop. The aim was to teach students how to process Big Data in a fast scalable manner using the MapReduce programming paradigm. The students started with a simple … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago

Learning to Process Big Data with MapReduce and Hadoop - Hands-On Exercises

I recently ran a hands-on session at the SICSA Summer School on Big Data Information Visualisation on MapReduce and Hadoop. The aim was to teach students how to process Big Data in a fast scalable manner using the  MapReduce programming paradigm. The students started with a simpl … | Continue reading


@richardmccreadie.blogspot.com | 11 years ago