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In most cases, users need access to more information to make sense of a topic which is often given as a set of top-ranked keywords. Simply display top-ranked keywords usually make user confused and we need to summarize this event to facilitate user understand this event. * To solve this problem, we should overcome the following two difficulties: Retrieval : How to retrieve high-quality tweets about this event? Sub-event : How to detect all sub-events in a online manner? * * CLEar (Clairaudient Ear)A Realtime Online Observatory for Bursty and Viral Events A demonstration of CLEar System The Architecture of CLEar To sum up, an meaningful event observatory should equip the following functions: Detection of a bursty topic as soon as it emerges; Early prediction if the bursty topic is likely to go viral; Summarization of related bursty topics into semantically coherent events that can be monitored; Contextualization of the events with its temporal evolution and corresponding coverage across other news media. 1/13 Recommended Materials A Tutorial at?WWW 2014 : Towards a Social Media Analytics Platform: Event Detection and User Profiling for Twitter 2/13 A Tutorial at?KDD 2009: Tutorial on Event Detection Hila Becker /~hila/ Why Bursty and Viral? Compared against traditional news media, Twitter have been recognized as much more responsive and reliable sources to pick up bursty events. Trigger a surge of public interest within a short period of time. Capable of handling both planned and unplanned event. 3/13 Topic Detection in Social Media 4/13 Document-pivot : for a new tweet, assign it to a simliar existing event or take it as a new event if no similar events existed(This tweet is also called the first story of this event). Sasa Petrovic .etc Streaming first story detection with application to twitter HLT ‘10 Feature-pivot : some bursty features of hidden events would show an sharply increase than excepted when an event is happening.