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MMM 2014: MultiMedia Modeling pp 192–204Cite as

Where Is the News Breaking? Towards a Location-Based Event Detection Framework for Journalists

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The rise of user-generated content (UCG) as a source of information in the journalistic lifecycle is driving the need for automated methods to detect, filter, contextualise and verify citizen reports of breaking news events. In this position paper we outline the technological challenges in incorporating UCG into news reporting and describe our proposed framework for exploiting UGC from social media for location-based event detection and filtering to reduce the workload of journalists covering breaking and ongoing news events. News organisations increasingly rely on manually curated UGC. Manual monitoring, filtering, verification and curation of UGC, however, is a time and effort consuming task, and our proposed framework takes a first step in addressing many of the issues surrounding these processes.

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  1. Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Bahareh Rahmanzadeh Heravi & Prashant Khare

  2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Donn Morrison

  3. University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Stephane Marchand-Maillet

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  1. School of Computing, Dublin City University, 9, Dublin, Ireland

    Cathal Gurrin

  2. Fakultät IV für Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin / DAI-Labor, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Frank Hopfgartner

  3. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, 3584, Utrecht, CC, The Netherlands

    Wolfgang Hurst

  4. UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway

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  5. Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

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  6. School of Electrical Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland

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Heravi, B.R., Morrison, D., Khare, P., Marchand-Maillet, S. (2014). Where Is the News Breaking? Towards a Location-Based Event Detection Framework for Journalists. In: Gurrin, C., Hopfgartner, F., Hurst, W., Johansen, H., Lee, H., O’Connor, N. (eds) MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8326. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04117-9_18

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