%0 Conference Paper %1 popescu-2010 %A Popescu, Ana-Maria %A Pennacchiotti, Marco %B Conference, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Toronto , ON, Canada - October 26 - 30, 2010 %C New York, NY, USA %D 2010 %I ACM %K 2011 events selected seminar twitter winter %P 1873--1876 %T Detecting Controversial Events from Twitter %X 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.

@inproceedings{popescu-2010, 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.}, added-at = {2011-10-10T09:43:09.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Popescu, Ana-Maria and Pennacchiotti, Marco}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26854b6ecd96cf43cb6dc81ace697c915/becker}, booktitle = {Conference, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Toronto , ON, Canada - October 26 - 30, 2010}, crossref = {tsytsarau-2010}, interhash = {eee5cf6ac1ddc6de83e0498cec610591}, intrahash = {6854b6ecd96cf43cb6dc81ace697c915}, keywords = {2011 events selected seminar twitter winter}, pages = {1873--1876}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2011-10-26T09:10:26.000+0200}, title = {Detecting Controversial Events from Twitter}, year = 2010 }