CLEar: A Real-time Online Observatory for Bursty and Viral Events

• Main Authors: XIE, Runquan, ZHU, Feida, MA, Hui, XIE, Wei, LIN, Chen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2647; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3647/viewcontent/p1637_xie.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We describe our demonstration of CLEar (Clairaudient Ear), a real-time online platform for detecting, monitoring, summarizing, contextualizing and visualizing bursty and viral events, those triggering a sudden surge of public interest and going viral on micro-blogging platforms. This task is challen...