Live Topic Generation from Event Streams

Vuk Milicic, José Luis Redondo Garcia,

Giuseppe Rizzo, Raphaël Troncy, Thomas Steiner

raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr / @rtroncy

Media Finder (www2013)

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 2

Media Finder (zooming on media items)

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 3

Media Finder (timeline view)

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 4

Media Finder (timeline view)

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 5

Media Server

Composition of media item extractors (12 SNs) Rely on search APIs + a fix 30s timeout window to provide results Fallback on screen scraping when necessary (Twitter ecosystem)

Implemented as a NodeJS server

Serialize results in a common schema (JSON)

22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro 15/05/2013 - 6

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 7

Deep link Permalink

Clean text for NLP processing

Aggregate view of ALL social interactions

12 Social Networks

Media Finder Architecture

Media items harvesting using the Media Server http://eventmedia.eurecom.fr/media-

server/search/{combined}/{term} https://github.com/vuknje/media-server (@tomayac fork)

Image near de-duplication DCT signature on image and video frame,

Hamming distance between image pairs

Clustering and disambiguation Named Entity Extraction using NERD Topic Generation using LDA Density-based clustering using OPTICS

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 8

Named Entities are Pivotal

http://nerd.eurecom.fr/

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 9

REST API Ontology

Dashboard UI

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 10

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 11

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 12

Media Finder (named entities clustering)

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 13

Media Finder (zooming in a cluster)

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 14

Summary

Pick an event identified with a hashtag

Use MediaServer to get media items aggregated over multiple social networks

Use NERD to get entities aggregated over multiple extractors

Cluster and identify meaningful topics (aka entities) with a meaningful label often disambiguated with a DBpedia URI giving access

to more encyclopedic knowledge

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 15

Live Topic Generation from Event Streams

Meet us at WWW 2013 Demo Session, Booth 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRiwz7cDYY

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 16

http://www.slideshare.net/troncy

15/05/2013 22nd World Wide Web Conference (WWW) - Rio de Janeiro - 17