Title
National Security and Social Media Monitoring: A Presentation of the EMOTIVE and Related Systems
Abstract
Today social media streams, such as Twitter, represent vast amounts of 'real-time' daily streaming data. Topics on these streams cover every range of human communication, ranging from banal banter, to serious reactions to events and information sharing regarding any imaginable product, item or entity. It has now become the norm for publicly visible events to break news over social media streams first, and only then followed by main stream media picking up on the news. It has been suggested in literature that social-media are a valid, valuable and effective real-time tool for gauging public subjective reactions to events and entities. Due to the vast big-data that is generated on a daily basis on social media streams, monitoring and gauging public reactions has to be automated and most of all scalable - i.e. human, expert monitoring is generally unfeasible. In this paper the EMOTIVE system, a project funded jointly by the DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) and EPSRC, which focuses on monitoring fine-grained emotional responses relating to events of national security importance, will be presented. Similar systems for monitoring national security events are also presented and the primary traits of such national security social media monitoring systems are introduced and discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EISIC.2013.38
Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
national security importance,national security,social media,human communication,expert monitoring,effective real-time tool,related systems,main stream media,social media monitoring,national security event,social media stream,daily basis,information retrieval,natural language processing,real time systems
National security,Internet privacy,Social media,Monitoring system,Computer science,Norm (social),Emotive,Human communication,Information sharing,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin D. Sykora193.93
Thomas W. Jackson221717.90
Ann O'Brien36211.31
Suzanne Elayan431.44